Democratic Sen.
Elissa Slotkin is facing sharp criticism after publicly demanding full funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just hours after voting to keep the agency partially shut down in the wake of a terror attack on a Michigan synagogue.
According to the Gateway Pundit, Slotkin shifted her rhetoric following an attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, allegedly carried out by Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, a Lebanese native who became a U.S. citizen in 2016, as identified by DHS. As reported by the Daily Caller, Slotkin had voted Thursday to continue the partial shutdown of DHS, yet on Friday she appeared before cameras insisting the agency is essential and must be funded.
I would say the department, because they are essential workers, they have been at work, Slotkin said during a press conference, acknowledging that DHS personnel remain on duty despite the funding fight. Certainly in Michigan, we have a ton of DHS folks, CBP and so they are on the call and they are doing their jobs. Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security and we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation on ICE, which is its own conversation, from all of the core missions at the Department of Homeland Security. But theyre essential, they are on the job and they are working today.
Conservatives argue this is a textbook case of Democratic doublespeak: publicly praising frontline security workers while voting to deprive their agency of stable funding. Commentators such as Guy Benson on FOX News have already dissected how Slotkins statements clash with her record, underscoring what many on the right see as a broader pattern of Democrats playing shutdown politics with national security.
If Republicans engaged in this kind of contradiction, the corporate media would likely pursue them relentlessly and demand accountability. Instead, Democrats like Slotkin are largely shielded from scrutiny, reinforcing the perception that the press reserves its toughest questions for conservatives while giving the left yet another free pass.
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