Leanne Caldwell

I think absolutely there's significance.

Tom Homan has been at odds with Kristi Noem.

Tom Homan is a longtime veteran of DHS and actually some of my sources in DHS have

At the beginning of this administration, we're happy that Tom Homan got that job.

They think that he was the border czar, that he was the right person for that.

He was mostly very respected within DHS.

And so there could mean potential trouble for Kristi Noem that she is being sidelined.

Yeah, you know, it's really interesting because the last government shutdown, it was over health care.

And even though it proved to be really good politically for Democrats, they turned the conversation to health care, an issue that is very good for them.

It drew a ton of awareness to Republican opposition to extending these health care subsidies and

The Democrats were still nervous and skittish and didn't know if it was the right strategy throughout.

And many were very uncomfortable with it, even though they went along with it.

This time, though, Democrats are so outraged and so furious that even the people who don't like government shutdowns and don't participate in them, like Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, want to push this issue, even if it leads perhaps to a government shutdown.

They just believe that having masked, roving federal law enforcement agents who are told that they have complete and full immunity with no repercussions and not even the optics of some sort of investigation from the federal government when something goes wrong out on the street is something that Democrats think is unacceptable and worth using any sort of leverage they have.

So the dynamics within the Democratic Party are much different.

And while it was unclear previously in the last shutdown if they had the public on their side, the outrage, the public outrage on this right now seems to give them a lot of comfort in moving forward that they are on the right side of this.

So that is such a great question, because actually, no, it does not.

I mean, we'll we'll see.

So.

Let's remember that they are talking about ICE and government funding for ICE.