“We held it up because we wanted, as I mentioned before, to reform ICE and CPB.” That didn’t happen.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has admitted that the Democrats have been the group in the Senate holding up funding for DHS. However, in the deal that passed through the Senate for the second time on Thursday, the Dems did not get the immediate goals they wanted to accomplish of taking away funding from ICE and CBP as well as changing policies with the agencies.
When Schumer was asked by Wolfe Blitzer on CNN, “What do you say to those critics who argue that both ICE and border patrol are already set with funding millions and millions of dollars because of President Trump’s so called Big, Beautiful Bill that passed months ago? So Democrats just held up this legislation for what for political posturing. Is that right?”
“Well, that’s not fair at all. We held it up because we wanted, as I mentioned before, to reform ICE and CPB, which are lawless. The American people are totally on our side, I think, by two to one or close to that. They want it reformed, and that’s what we’re pushing for. We’re not going to fund a lawless ICE and a lawless CPB and the American people are overwhelmingly on our side, on that,” Schumer said.
Blitzer, reiterated, “They’re already funded, right?”
“Well, if they put funding in from their from their other bills, and want to keep funding a lawless ICE, a lawless CPB that creates chaos in our cities, it’s on their back. We’re not going to participate in that,” Schumer said, tacitly admitting that the Democrats did not really get anything they wanted in the bill.
The deal that was passed in the Senate does not reform or change policies regarding ICE or CBP and the agencies were already funded, meaning that the actions from the Democrats did not accomplish any reforms, and did not stop the funds going to ICE and CBP. The material changes that took place were a partial government shutdown which impacted DHS agencies such as TSA and others.
After being rejected by the House last week, the Senate deal will again go to the House side for a vote. If it passes, it will then go to the president’s desk.
