The Senate Democrats proved once again that they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Republicans basically caved to the Democrats, offering them a deal similar to the one the Democrats brought to the floor twice.
The deal funded everything in the Department of Homeland Security except Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), ICE’s deportation wing.
Ryan Wrasse, communications director for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, explained that the deal “isolates the areas of disagreement (immigration enforcement) while funding the rest of DHS, including TSA.”
“In terms of reforms, it includes all of the bipartisan proposals that were included in the deal Dems walked away from in January,” continued Wrasse.
Guess what.
The Democrats said no.
“Negotiations are ongoing, and they’ve sent us an offer,” said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “And we’ll be sending them an offer back. And I can assure you it will contain significant reform in it.”
Again, they do not care about us. Honestly, none of them do, but the Democrats just shouted it from the mountains.
Instead of funding everything except for the parts the Democrats want reformed, they said no.
“We finally just said, ‘Stop. We’ll just fund everything but [Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)],'” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told Fox News. “That’s what you said you wanted at the beginning. Let’s do that.”
It’s not possible to fund the other parts and work on reforms later.
Nope. TSA agents must remain unpaid, and we must suffer at the airports.
“That’s what we’re doing,” added Lankford. “So no extra language, no extra playing with it. We’re doing just the baseline. We don’t like it. They don’t like it. It opens everything up and gets everybody funded again.”
Nope. They want to reform ICE and those reforms must be in any deal before the Democrats accept it.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) insisted the Democrats are taking a stand because DHS has enforced immigration through Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
“They’ve created this problem in which it’s really hard to address an immigration enforcement operation that’s out of control because it is funded out of almost every part of the DHS budget,” Murphy told Fox News.
Fox News’s Bill Melugin wrote on X yesterday that the administration has used HSI to enforce immigration laws.
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