Jessica Tarlov

The other component to it, which I don't know, it doesn't satisfy the same mechanism, I guess, but is this conversation over impeaching Kristi Noem.

And Kyle Chaney at Politico has been doing incredible reporting on this, and he's tracked 2,300 cases since July in which federal judges have ruled that ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

2,300 since July in the read and in the intro you mentioned earlier.

how Todd Lyons, who's the acting ICE director, is going to have to go in front of a judge that is completely unprecedented.

You have Tom Holman going into Minneapolis, and there's another guy named Rodney Scott, who is the head of CBP, that Lewandowski and Noem had sidelined before, who is now being reactivated and is going to be sent to Minneapolis, too.

So they are moving fast and with a sense of urgency that indicates that they know that this

funding showdown is something that would look really, really bad for the administration.

And Trump is sensitive to those kinds of optics.

The articles of impeachment, just for some color on it, obstruction of Congress is one article, which is about not letting Congress do their oversight, not letting them into ICE facilities.

Violation of the public trust, so your First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Second Amendment, now with Alex Preddy.

And then also charges of self-dealing for Kristi Noem of inappropriately using tax dollars to do ICE recruitment and giving contracts out to friends, namely senior DHS official Tricia McLaughlin, who is a spokesperson.

Her husband got a massive contract, and it didn't go through the normal tendering process.

So I think that the impeachment of Kristi Noem is looking more and more like a good idea.

And John Fetterman, who said that he doesn't want to shut down the government, came out this morning and said that Kristi Noem must go.

And Gillen has as well.

I'm sorry, I don't want to be like Debbie Downer or Tracy Flick of this podcast, but just to add that if they do split up the spending bill into the individual packages, part of the concern is then it has to go back through the House and you're not going to get the support that you got the first time from like Swazi and Gillen for it.

I mean, the Texas reps are probably going to hang on and continue to vote for it.

So Senator Thune is thinking about that as well, that it would then get kicked back to Mike Johnson.

And has to go through that process again.

So abolishing ICE has its highest level of support that we've ever seen.