Congressional Democratic leaders are asking ICE to agree to reforms, promising to vote for $11 billion in funding for the agency if it does so. ICE has every reason to concede to the demands — then ignore them once the funding bill passes.
Congressional Democratic leaders are asking ICE to agree to reforms, promising to vote for $11 billion in funding for the agency if it does so. ICE has every reason to concede to the demands — then ignore them once the funding bill passes.
Honestly I’m on the fence about yanking the DHS funding. Trump is just going to fund ICE through other piles of money that he got in the BBB and that he’ll just start cutting other more critical services. Like FEMA, which is under the DHS.
If the Dems can effectively communicate that Trump is using FEMA, TSA, and coastguard money for ICE, then they should cut funding. But I’m not particularly confident about the Dems ability to communicate this. Hell, a lot of people don’t even realize that Trump can still fund ICE if Dems holdback DHS funding. They have not effectively communicated this.
You act like this is a dialogue, like the tRump republicans are there, in good faith, listening. Catch up, there can be no compromise cause they’re not looking for it, all the Dems can do is obstruct by any means possible, even if they have to get creative, because any other action will simply be capitulation to the demands of the administration. That is if they’re actually committed to democracy and the welfare of the American public, and not their donors’ outcomes. Which I personally think you have to be deluded to think, at least in regard to the party leadership, who consistently makes the exact wrong move every time (for Americans, that is).