Democrats just seem to want to keep ramping up the anti-ICE chaos.
Now, in the wake of the Border Patrol shooting on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, Democrats are saying they're not going to vote for the bill that includes Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding.
We already reported that there were likely to be issues.
In the wake of the shooting, some Senate Dems made announcements.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is a no.
Some of the eight Democrats who voted with Republicans to end the last shutdown also came out against the bill after the shooting, including Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV).
Then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ramped things up in a statement he released, blaming President Donald Trump. He's saying they will not advance the appropriations bill if it includes DHS.
“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling —and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no,”
.“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”
Also, ICE already got a lot of additional money under the One Big Beautiful Bill. What they would get as part of this appropriations bill, now in question, are things like body cams that Democrats wanted. So if they vote against it, they're voting against the greater transparency they say they wanted, and it's hitting more on other areas of DHS as this report indicates. Fox's Bill Melugin said not passing this would more hurt the Transportation Security Adminitration (TSA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
None of this chaos would be going on if Democrats hadn't refused to cooperate with the federal government in having ICE do its job. Instead, the Democrats incited the anti-ICE agitators. Then, when there were confrontations and violence, they continued to ratchet things up. They didn't care about the consequences or how that might put the people they were inciting and federal agents in danger.
Now they're trying to act like it's the Trump administration's fault. That's despicable; all of this is on their heads. They're so obsessed with trying to oppose Trump on everything, even something that is to the benefit of our own citizens. They're the ones fighting the enforcement of federal law.
So now, not only are they fighting against federal law, but they will try to incapacitate the government and shut things down unless they get their way. They are trying to do all they can, by hook or by crook, to hurt Trump and the Republicans for the midterms.
