House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said on Wednesday that he would reject a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year over concerns that it did not sufficiently curb Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
The announcement came in a closed-door meeting with Democratic caucus members, following continued ICE violence in Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge.
“We’ve heard our members speak loudly that ICE isn’t doing enough, these reforms aren’t doing enough. This lawlessness has to stop,” Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-CA) told reporters after the meeting on Wednesday. “They are only doing this because they can. They are only doing this because the president of the United States wants to use them to terrorize communities, to terrorize U.S. citizens.”
But, according to NBC News, Democratic leaders did not state they would whip a vote to push all members to follow their “no” vote. This leaves the door open for Democrats, many of whom are facing close elections this year, to vote in favor of the appropriation bill.
It doesn’t matter if they try even…
Neoliberal control for the last decade was predicated on the “victory fund” and their willingness to cut off funding to an entire state party if reps from that state didn’t vote how they wanted.
Martin immediately started giving those funds back, and we’ve been in the largest reinvestment from the DNC to state parties for almost a year straight.
Shcumer and Jeffries are completely toothless, and I think we’ll see both of them start claiming they agree with progressives more now. Not because they agree with it or anything, they just know they’re powerless to obstruct it anymore, and would rather keep up the appearance that they matter so lobbyists keep bribing them.