MAGA Mike Panics as GOP Senate Votes Against him...at 2 AM
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What triggered MAGA Mike Johnson's panic?
MAGA Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, is panicking after MAGA Republicans in the Senate passed by a unanimous consent motion a bill that would just fund TSA agents and not fund ICE and Border Patrol, which is exactly what Democrats had been proposing for some time. And that followed Donald Trump making a social media post saying that via executive order, he would be funding the TSA using funds that were already appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security, thus showing that Donald Trump could have been funding the TSA for many, many weeks now, as we've been saying at the Midas Touch Network. So the sequence of events is that Donald Trump says that he's going to fund the TSA via an executive order, which he could have done for a long time.
Then around 2 a.m., In the United States Senate, Senator John Kennedy, MAGA Republican from Louisiana, basically adopted the Democrat plan, the Democratic plan to just fund TSA. Then the MAGA Republicans were going to defer ICE and Border Patrol funding, perhaps at a later time during reconciliation proceedings in a few weeks or a few months. Then the Senate left They left Washington, D.C. I mean, they got in planes and they went home to their districts and said, see you later. So that means the House of Representatives would basically have to pass an identical bill to what the Senate passed just funding the TSA. And by the way, Donald Trump said he was doing that via executive order. And if there were any changes made to what the Senate passed in the House, the Senate would have to come back.
But you see, the problem is the Senate left and they ain't coming back for the next two weeks. That's what I talked about in the video I made earlier today. The next time the Senate's going to come back, it's like the second week of April. So we still have this partial government shutdown of DHS. And while TSA is going to now be funded via this executive order, that money is getting pulled from other areas in order to fund TSA. And the MAGA Republicans want to make sure that ICE and Border Patrol get additional funding because they're already well-funded. Let's be very clear. They've gotten hundreds of billions of dollars. I want to see ICE and Border Patrol abolished. They don't need any money at all, in my view.
But Republicans want to give them more money.
How did Donald Trump's executive order impact TSA funding?
Democrats have set the conditions, no masks, must use search warrants, must identify yourself, can't be at polling stations. But the MAGA Republicans don't want any of those conditions. And the MAGA Republicans want to make sure that they have more money to torture and maim and kill. and terrorize people here in the United States and expand the concentration camp system that is being built here in the United States. And so ultimately, when this was passed from the Senate to the House, the House said, uh-uh, we are not just going to fund the TSA. We want to make sure the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Border Patrol get extra funding so they can do the torture. That's what we want. So we're not going to support you MAGA Republicans in the Senate.
So come back, Senators, because we in the House, we're going to do what's called a continuing resolution regarding the previous status quo funding. in order to make sure all of DHS is funded. Now, the Democrats have objected to that in the Senate and have threatened the filibuster, and Republicans don't have enough votes to obtain cloture. And so Republicans made a deal with the Democrats not to fund ICE and Border Patrol, but the MAGA Republicans in the House were like, screw that. We can't support that. So we're not just going to fund TSA alone. We want to make sure that ICE can wear masks and have no search warrants and terrorize and torture people. And so the MAGA Republicans in the House have been panicking, MAGA Mike, and they're like, we're going to do a continuing resolution that funds everything.
Come back, senators. We're going to force a vote on this. And the senators are like giving MAGA Mike the middle finger, the MAGA Republican senator.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What triggered MAGA Mike Johnson's panic?
0:00–2:30
2
How did Donald Trump's executive order impact TSA funding?
2:30–4:17
3
What was the significance of the 2 AM Senate vote?
4:17–5:24
4
Why did MAGA Republicans defer ICE and Border Patrol funding?
5:24–8:17
5
What are the implications of the Senate leaving for two weeks?
8:17–11:35
6
How did the House respond to the Senate's TSA funding bill?
11:35–15:16
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