Immigration minister Marjolein Faber says her planned €3.5 billion cut from the refugee and asylum budget is not going to be possible, according to the Volkskrant.

The PVV minister was providing an estimation of spending ahead of the spring budget talks.

Faber has pressed forward with the reduction despite repeated warnings her budget was not realistic. Last year the audit office, the independent body that evaluates government spending, said it was doubtful Faber’s plans would be possible.

Multiple sources told the Volkskrant that Faber had backtracked from her planned 80% reduction in spending when she gave her estimates to finance minister Eelco Heinen.

Under what Faber has called the “harshest immigration plan ever,” she expected a substantial drop in the number of people seeking asylum in the Netherlands.

Numbers have gone down, but Faber’s plans have yet to be enacted in law.