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.
You seem to not understand voting is irrelevant because their corporate backers functionally decide if they get elected or not via campaign finance laws.
They don’t want to bite the hand that feeds they don’t give a shit about the voters. The voters are just a technicality, a hurdle on their way to becoming elected by the corporations they truly represent.
Everything else is just a bunch of bullshit to trick people into voting for them and keep them angry and occupied about the current cultural or social issue of the time. It’s a distraction.