Originally published at: Dems Say They Will Block Funding Bill That Includes Money for DHS After Federal Agents Kill Alex Pretti
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Saturday evening that Democrats would “not provide the votes” for a government funding bill this week if appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security are included. The statement comes after federal agents shot and killed a bystander who was filming their activities earlier in the day. “What’s happening in…
Thank you. If there was ever a time to be unified, it’s now.
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Be sure to call your senators. We’ll need to hold Dems to this position, and I don’t even want to imagine what sorts of (even more) degenerate actions the Miller administration will take to try to force approval for the funding.
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I’m sick to my stomach and sick at heart.
Maybe Ayatollah Khamenei will bomb Mar-a-Lago to halt the execution of protesters.
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Lightning on a Golf Course will do.
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Anything short of Abolishing ICE will leave in place Trump’s Gestapo. I can not imagine guardrails doing much good in an administration this lawless and unaccountable. It is well past time to actually act with the urgency of this present moment. Federal agents are daily violating the constitutional rights of American citizens. This is not business as usual and the response of our electeds has barely risen to mildly agitated. There is a lot on the line.
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Fully in favor of stopping everything until ICE is brought to heel but, always the but, what are our demands here? Seems like we need to wrap our heads around what we’re holding out for. What specifics should we demand? I like abolish ICE. But isn’t Bovino CBP?