An impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will “move forward,” members of Congress are promising, after the effort was announced last week in the wake of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a United States citizen in Minneapolis.
“We’re gonna move forward to impeach Kristi Noem,” Representative Angie Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, vowed during an interview with MS Now on Sunday.
In a press release, Democratic Representative Robin Kelly‘s office said that the 3 articles of impeachment would allege Noem “abused her office for personal benefit and steered federal dollars to associates,” “willfully obstructed Congressional oversight and withheld Congressionally appropriated funds in violation of her constitutional oath and federal law” and “compromised public safety, violated due process of American citizens, and directed unconstitutional actions.”
Standard divide and conquer tactics. If they can keep Democrats fighting each other, the Republicans can continue their business uninterrupted.
During 2025 budget negotiations senate democrats ended their fillabuster and approved massive increases for ICE and DHS.
This isn’t divide and conquer, these are the facts.
Personally I would like to see them primaried out internally. If that fails they would still be preferable to any opposing republican candidate.
But also if these dems are going to help fund republican agendas how is that going to interrupt the republican agenda?
Democrats voted against the bill. They didn’t have enough votes to stop it and they realistically couldn’t keep the government shut down til the end of the year. That would be a bigger disaster to Americans than the bill itself. Why are you giving Republicans a free pass on responsibility?
I don’t know, I feel like having literal brownshirts running around US cities murdering people was a way worse outcome
They were still doing that during the shutdown. The shutdown didn’t impact ICE at all.
Federal funding is complicated, but essentially agencies are only given a portion of a budget to work with from the previous fiscal year. Operations for some agencies are slowed, but not outright stopped. Other agencies stop entirely it depends.
But the more important bit was caving and allowing them a full budget (currently running on the FY25 budget) to run on. They have another chance at the end of January to make another stand with the fillabuster again since they only issued ICE temporary funding (mistake on my part). So those 9 dems have a chance to fix their mistakes and refuse to fund ICE or at the very least drastically decrease their budget to FY 24 spending. Which was billions less.
They let them continue once, they have one more chance to fix it.
I really do hope they do what you say and shut down the government again over ICE. With luck they will only have to keep it shut down until the newly elected democrat majority house takes office in January.