Democrats in Washington have engineered yet another partial government shutdown, this time targeting the Department of Homeland Securitys funding while demanding so?called ICE reforms, even as critical agencies are left to shoulder the burden of a crisis their own policies helped create.
According to RedState, Democrats are fully aware that ICE and Border Patrol are already funded under the broader appropriations package President Donald Trump signed, meaning their shutdown stunt primarily hits the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
That last agency, FEMA, is now being pressed into service not for a natural disaster, but to address a man?made environmental catastrophe in the nations capital: hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage dumped into the Potomac River due to failed Democrat governance at the local and state levels.
As RedStates Ben Smith reported, FEMA has been ordered to step in and ameliorate the environmental disaster of raw sewage pouring into the Potomac River and coordinate remediation efforts to restore the river to a safe state. This unfolding emergency, Smith noted, did not arise from an unforeseeable act of God but from the failure of local leadership, a failure that just happens to be concentrated in Democrat-controlled jurisdictions.
Smith detailed how DC Water admitted it understated contamination levels tied to the spill by a factor of 100 after millions of gallons of raw sewage entered the Potomac. He further reported that The total discharge reached 242 million gallons, and remediation efforts could take up to nine months, raising serious questions about infrastructure oversight and public communication.
Because the scale of the disaster is beyond DC Waters capacity, Smith reported that President Donald Trump has directed FEMA to coordinate the cleanup of the Potomac and safeguard the regional water supply. In other words, while Democrats in Congress posture about compassion and environmental justice, it is the Trump administrations emergency management apparatus that is actually working to protect millions of Americans from a public health nightmare.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem highlighted the absurdity of the situation, noting that Democrats are punishing the very agency now tasked with cleaning up the mess created under Democrat leadership. Her criticism underscores a broader pattern: progressive mismanagement creates crises, and then the left demands more federal power and spending to fix what its own policies broke.
Noem wrote on X: Democrats in Congress have shut down @FEMA fundingleaving our hard working employees to work without payyet FEMA is now stepping in to coordinate cleanup of one of the largest raw sewage spills in U.S. history. Thanks to gross mismanagement by Maryland's Democrat leaders,. She continued, Democrats in Congress have shut down @FEMA fundingleaving our hard working employees to work without payyet FEMA is now stepping in to coordinate cleanup of one of the largest raw sewage spills in U.S. history.
Noem further warned, Thanks to gross mismanagement by Maryland's Democrat leaders, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage has reportedly been dumped into the Potomac Riverflowing straight through our nation's capital and endangering millions of people, wildlife, and the entire DC region's water supply. She concluded, Democrats are withholding paychecks from the men and women of @dhsgov while they clean up this Democrat-created disaster. Unbelievable hypocrisy.
The hypocrisy is not merely rhetorical; it is playing out in real time as unpaid FEMA workers labor to contain a disaster that Democrat officials helped cause and then tried to downplay. Meanwhile, the supposedly moderate Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser have remained conspicuously silent about both the sewage spill and FEMAs intervention.
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