Leanne Caldwell

Yeah, so obviously there was another tragic shooting of a U.S.

citizen in Minneapolis.

And what's interesting is that this bill, including the DHS funding, was expected to pass.

You know, it only got a little more than a handful of votes, Democratic votes, in the House.

But the Senate was going most likely to move forward on this.

It only needed about eight Democratic senators.

It looked like it was going to get that.

And then the shooting happened, obviously the second shooting in a matter of weeks.

And Democrats nearly unanimously in the Senate came out adamantly opposed to giving the Department of Homeland Security, especially ICE, more money on the heels of this shooting.

So Democrats, for the most part, the majority of Democrats do not want to go there on this abolish ICE movement.

They think it's counterproductive.

It plays into Republican talking points, especially when this was a big movement back in 2019 during Trump's first term.

So what they would rather do is try to rein in this agency.

But there's also additional conversations on impeaching DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

That is something that is becoming overwhelmingly popular among House Democrats.

She has created an absolute disaster in this agency.

It's got to stop.

And even a few Senate Democrats are saying the same.

You know, Democrats are obviously in the minority with little power to do this.

But that's where they would rather have the conversation rather than around defunding or abolishing ICE.