  New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations are revealing the first
galaxies to be prolific producers of ionizing photons, which we argue gives
rise to a tension between different probes of reionization. For hydrogen
reionization to proceed there must be enough ionizing photons for all of the
hydrogen atoms, including their recombinations. Over the last two decades a
consensus has emerged where star-forming galaxies are able to generate these
photons, given reasonable values for their number densities, ionizing
efficiencies $\xi_{\rm ion}$ (per unit UV luminosity), and escape fractions
$f_{\rm esc}$. However, new JWST observations infer high values of $\xi_{\rm
ion}$ during reionization and an enhanced abundance of earlier ($z\gtrsim 9$)
galaxies, dramatically increasing the number of ionizing photons produced at
high $z$. Simultaneously, recent low-$z$ studies predict significant escape
fractions for faint reionization-era galaxies. Put together, we show that the
galaxies we have directly observed ($M_{\rm UV} < -15$) not only can drive
reionization, but would end it too early. That is, our current galaxy
observations, taken at face value, imply an excess of ionizing photons and thus
a process of reionization in tension with the cosmic microwave background (CMB)
and Lyman-$\alpha$ forest. Considering galaxies down to $M_{\rm UV}\approx
-11$, below current observational limits, only worsens this tension, requiring
on average $f_{\rm esc}\approx 3\%$, far lower than expected for early galaxies
from post-reionization studies. We discuss possible avenues to resolve this
photon budget crisis, including missing astrophysical or observational
selection effects, as well as enhanced recombinations.
