Bill Kristol

It is for now.

Congress does not have to accept a prior Congress's decision about funding and they can change it.

And if they want to make it conditional on these reforms, if they want to reduce the growth of ICE, ICE has gone from 10,000 to 22,000, I believe, officers in the last year.

God knows what the quality of those 12 new 12,000 is.

I'm not sure that the shooter was one of the new ones.

Incidentally, he may have been someone who was more at other problems.

But anyway, it can't be good.

And it just increases the chances of all this happening.

And they can put a pause on the expansion of ICE.

They can put a pause on the expansion of funding.

They don't have to totally defund it.

I myself, not being a member of Congress, feel I can maybe slightly irresponsibly say abolish ICE just to get people to think about it.

and reorganize DHS and so forth.

But yes, there are many things they can push for.

And if they have to compromise to get some Republican votes and, you know, a little more funding go ahead than they want, but in return, get some of these restrictions.

You can't just sit there and say, well, we have to keep the government open and it's a big appropriations bill and it's got a lot of some other stuff in it that we like.

And we're just going to go ahead and fund this agency that's doing these kinds of things.

I don't think that's I don't think personally it's acceptable.

I wouldn't vote for such a thing.

And I really think they could get a lot of support.