Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is blasting what he derides as the Karen wing of the Democratic Party for holding the Department of Homeland Security hostage to ideological demands on immigration enforcement.
According to Fox News, Kennedys rebuke came after a heated House hearing where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership faced aggressive questioning from Democrats. The senator said the spectacle resembled the game room in a mental hospital, arguing that the left flank of the party is driving policy with emotion rather than reason.
This is not a rational process. This discussion we're having is not a discussion about how we should use scarce taxpayer resources to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Kennedy said Wednesday on The Faulkner Focus. He charged that Democrats are less interested in responsible budgeting than in appeasing activists who want to cripple immigration enforcement.
The Karen wing of the Democratic Party wants to defund ICE, just like they wanted to defund the police, and we know how that vampire movie turned out, he added, warning that this faction now effectively controls the partys agenda. Kennedy claimed that even if Republicans accepted every proposed ICE reform, Democrats would still block a funding deal because the Karen Wing will punish any Democrat that votes to keep the Department of Homeland Security open.
The Senate is now racing to avert what would be a third government shutdown under President Donald Trump, with this potential closure narrowly targeting DHS. Agencies such as FEMA, the TSA and the Coast Guard would be hit, while ICE operations remain well-financed with billions from Trumps big, beautiful bill.
Democrats insist their central goal is tightening oversight of ICE after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. As activists escalate their anti-ICE rhetoric, Kennedy dismissed many of them as deeply weird and said some project an I've got a freezer full of body parts in my basement vibe, even as he affirmed their right to peaceful protest.
"You can be deeply weird in America. You can protest. What you can't do is protest violently... if you protest violently and act like a butthead and try to interfere with a cop, it's not gonna end well. Even your cocker spaniel knows that." Kennedy closed with a blunt reminder to demonstrators: "Most cops, including ICE officers, will leave you alone unless you do illegal stuff."
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