President Trump’s agenda is under threat from only Democrats.
Members of his own party are plotting against him.
And RINOs snuck a bill defunding ICE through while you were sleeping. Trump is furious.
As West Wing Daily reports:
Senate Republicans caved to Democrats in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown fight.
Democrats refused to fund DHS, knowing a shutdown would mean TSA agents would go without pay and not show up to work, resulting in chaos at the airports.
That turned into the pressure point Democrats squeezed to defund mass deportations.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) folded to the Democrat demand to separate ICE and Border Patrol funding from a larger DHS funding bill.
Democrats know that this sets up another funding fight over ICE and Border Patrol, where Senate RINOs will again fold and defund mass deportations.
The DHS surrender funding bill passed the Senate in the dead of night by voice vote.
Once the bill passed the Senate fled Washington for Easter break in the hopes that their absences would force the GOP majority in the House of Representatives to accept this betrayal of Trump’s immigration agenda.
Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich spoke to Trump about the Senate GOP’s surrender, and Trump blasted the bill defunding ICE as unacceptable.
“Well, it wasn’t good. It wasn’t appropriate. Now what they should do is they should terminate the filibuster, Jacqui, and just vote, but you have three or four Republicans in there that are not doing the right thing,” Trump began.
“You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund — in my opinion, you can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund ICE. You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund any form of law enforcement, of which ICE is a big form, and so is Border Patrol,” Trump added.
Trump reminded Americans that Democrats’ main goal with this shutdown fight was defunding mass deportations.
“This whole thing is about the Democrats wanting to have open borders, no ICE, no border patrol. These people are crazy,” Trump concluded. “They want open borders. They want no border patrol. They want no ICE. They want nothing, except for criminals to pour into our country, and it’s not going to happen.”
Senate Republicans who enabled this deal secretly share the goal of ending mass deportations.
But Trump foiled the plot.
The House of Representatives followed Trump’s lead and rejected the Senate bill, and kicked the ball back into the Senate’s court by passing a bill that funded all of DHS, including ICE and Border Patrol.
