Posted on 03/04/2026 5:15:27 PM PST by Libloather
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters on Wednesday that “everybody in America” should watch how their representatives vote on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill expected to come to the floor on Thursday.
“You better watch that board. And everybody in America better watch that board. Anybody who votes to block funding for the homeland, it is shameful,” Johnson said. “I don’t know how to describe it. It speaks to a long record of Democrats’ deliberate efforts to undermine America’s safety and the essential operations of DHS.”
Democrats have demanded that the White House significantly reform its immigration enforcement tactics after the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minnesota, and have refused to support any DHS bill that comes to the floor without those reforms. But the White House and Democrats have been deadlocked over a deal to reopen DHS, which shut down early Feb. 14 after a two-week stopgap measure to keep the department funded at existing levels expired.
Republicans have been ramping up pressure on Democrats to support the DHS bill in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran. The bill is largely identical to the one that had passed the lower chamber in January, before the death of 37-year-old Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti.
Democratic leadership have been opposed to the bill, however.
“Donald Trump launches an unauthorized war in the Middle East. He characterizes it as endless. He decides that he wants to spend billions of dollars to bomb Iran, rather than spend taxpayer dollars to lower the grocery bills that are crushing the American people,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said during a press conference on Tuesday.
“And then wants to use his unauthorized war as an excuse to continue spending taxpayer dollars to brutalize or kill American citizens...
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With funds blocked for the Coast Guard, Secret Service and TSA, and a genuine risk of terrorism from within, this is no time to be going soft on domestic security.
Release the funds and vote for SAVE or else, Dims!
“Democrats have demanded that the White House significantly reform its immigration enforcement tactics after the killings of two U.S. citizens...”
Oh, NOES! Two idiot ‘Death By Cops’ ‘Citizens’ versus how many DOZENS of INNOCENT Americans killed by ILLEGALS USHERED IN under Brandon and pretty much everyone before him?
My Give-A-Damn’s Busted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40fwZgSFPI
“Naw. Man. Sorry.” ~ Jo Dee Messina.
“lower the grocery bills that are crushing the American people,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said during a press conference on Tuesday.”
Total bullschtein. I know many seniors who have very little money eating just fine, and helping neighbors who have problems. My friend Darlene does that several times a week and she’s in her 90s.
“ House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.”
Hakeem. Muslim. Of course he is against an attack on a terrorist muslim country building nukes.
Whats ironic to me us that NY would be our first city to be destroyed by terrorist muslims.
I hope America remembers in November.
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