In endorsing a bill that would carry forward a huge spike in funding to ICE, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, acknowledged it excludes most of the ICE reforms Democrats have demanded since the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. But a shutdown or a short-term spending patch, she argued, would be worse.
“A continuing resolution will jettison the guardrails we have secured while ceding authority to President Trump, Stephen Miller, and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem,” she said Tuesday morning.
New regulatory guardrails aren’t going to even slow down ICE a little bit, we already have a mountain of examples of them ignoring their current regulations and lying about their conduct constantly. The only thing that will restrain them is denying them the resources they need to carry out their campaign of oppression.
What’s really frustrating tho is I’m sure Rep DeLauro knows all of that already and she’s just trying to push this bullshit through anyway.
Remember when Schumer refused to pick a fight over the budget last March?
Its why were here.
It’ll be super fun to see them totally drop the health cost issue, opting to lose this DHS battle instead. Fucking worthless.
Dems politicians whom have positions of powers on committees support republican policies. PRIMARY THEM ALL
We have two conservative parties in the US.
Actual centrism doesn’t even get representation, let alone leftism.
Just Nazi Right and Diet Nazi Right.
That sounds exactly like what someone would say who had a vested interest in making people give up on voting.
Name an issue and I’ll show you how the ratcheting effect works. Sorry if reality conflicts with blueMAGA
Ranked choice voting/instant runoff voting.
I’ll admit that it’s not an issue that I’m especially familiar with. What are they doing to implement it on the national level? The best the Democrats can do is promise it for 2028 primaries. In my eyes that’s just more delay tactics
Not really.
I think it makes the point that if youre at the vote and those are the options, youre starting too late.
You still vote for the best option (as in, least horrendous), but you need another option to actually move anything left by voting.
Voting is not the only tool we have to put pressure on politicians who actually believe in democracy. They will respond to public outcry. The problem is politicians who don’t believe in democracy because all that moves them is money.
Many former two party countries have managed to elect third, fourth and fifth+ parties, usually once the voters are sick enough of being forced to vote for the lesser evil every cycle.
WTF? They are just collaborating at this point.
