During an interview with ABC News on Monday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that, in the battle over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, Democrats have pushed to “keep ICE out of our airports, and don’t fund this reckless
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) reacted to President Donald Trump ordering that TSA agents be paid by saying that if the President “has now understood that he needs to pay TSA out of ICE’s
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) responded to a question on what Democrats have gotten out of the DHS shutdown by saying that “the ICE issue is certainly prominent in a way that
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) blamed the DHS shutdown on Republicans and also stated that Democrats are firm that “we’re not going to send another nickel to ICE and CBP.” Co-host Symone Sanders
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) argued that, on the DHS shutdown, “Nothing is won until each and every one of those workers [is] getting their money, caught up on their bills, including those with
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) said that he’s not okay with ICE agents remaining at airports, even if they are helping reduce hours-long waits and wondered, “Are they going to walk around with masks
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) stated that “some kind of change in the government” is an objective in Iran, but “maybe that’s not reachable.” Gimenez said, “I have a clearer knowledge, or at least indication
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that people aren’t going without money from the government due to Operation Epic Fury, and the taxes he pays never seem to actually get
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said that getting DHS funded aside from ICE and CBP is “not enough” for him because he wants “more restrictions” on ICE. Co-host Erica Hill asked, “[W]hat do you
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) said that the changes to ICE and CBP that Democrats want “might be like the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, that we have to take it to the
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that things like “body cameras, wearing your IDs, not wearing masks,” “make sense” for ICE and CBP. Bacon said, “I would say that there was overreach done by
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that it has become toxic to support Israel among Democrats and Democrats who are starting to refuse AIPAC money are saying that “Israel is
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher quipped that California gubernatorial candidates Republicans Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Democrats Tom Steyer, Rep. Eric Swalwell, former Rep. Katie Porter, and San Jose Mayor Matt
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that both parties fall behind their party’s one view to an extent and he thinks there is a falling in line around “one viewpoint” on Iran among Democrats, and
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that a proposal from Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) to put limits on ICE while funding DHS isn’t good enough because “we can look separately
On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump “won’t pay the people who are keeping us safe because he wants to fund his own domestic terror unit,”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) discussed DHS funding and said that regardless of how the current impasse is resolved, Republicans will need to pass a reconciliation bill and fund “parts of DHS well into the
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) said that the Trump administration has to give Congress more information on what it’s considering in Iran. Co-host Kailey Leinz asked, “Your Chairman on the Armed Services Committee,
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez said that there need to be court dates for people who have “manipulated asylum to get here” “within 90 days,” and dealing with that population is “the only
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) stated that Democrats will not vote to fund ICE “unless the American people are safe, and, under the current circumstances, they are not safe with ICE operating as it
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) talked about his proposal with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) to end the DHS shutdown and responded to claims that House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) isn’t a big fan
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) argued that the White House is “choosing chaos again by refusing to make a deal with Democrats that gets these TSA workers paid. That’s a question of priorities.”
On Thursday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) said that the DHS shutdown is “because the Trump administration sent an army of masked ICE agents into American neighborhoods, terrorizing people, banging down people’s doors without warrants, shooting American citizens
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) said that Democrats have remained united throughout the DHS shutdown and haven’t had a group say that they’ll just pass something to end the shutdown “because it’s clear that
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) said that he wants to see TSA privatized like it already is at some airports. While discussing the DHS shutdown, McCormick said that Democrats are trying to “defund law
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) stated that the Trump administration will “have to figure out” “Is the goal here to open back up the Strait of Hormuz, or is it to — which
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said Democrats have “never” had leverage in the DHS shutdown and “we knew going into it that shutdown of DHS would have zero impact on forcing any kinds of changes at
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has “just been pushing for a very, very hard agreement” on the DHS shutdown but, “I disagree, at the moment,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that what people are getting out of the DHS shutdown “is that Donald Trump refuses to fund the Coast Guard or TSA or any of the other functions
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Will Cain Show,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said that the current battle over DHS funding is different from what Democrats have criticized in the past because “You have ICE and CBP murdering
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez discussed the killing of Sheridan Gorman and said that it was “the culmination of the choices made here in the city of Chicago and the state
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) discussed legislation on the DHS shutdown with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) that includes some changes to ICE and said that “the leverage that exists right now is just that
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said that Democrats “share the concern about TSA that’s not being paid.” But also, “Democrats have been very solid in the Senate on the need to have
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) argued that “in areas where our interests are questionable” like Iran, President Donald Trump is getting more invested but in areas like Ukraine where we can “push back
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Border Czar Tom Homan responded to arguments that sanctuary city policies are needed so crime victims and witnesses can come forward by saying, “That is a bunch of
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Michael Eisenberg, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the Iranian people aren’t going to take to the streets while bombs are falling and “It takes months for the people to
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) responded to a question on whether he’ll vote in favor of a reconciliation bill to end the DHS shutdown by saying that he won’t be part
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that tragedies like the killing of Sheridan Gorman “are going to continue to happen.” And criticized Democrats for refusing to back the Laken Riley Act.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that Democrats are trying “to make the point that ICE is out of control” with the DHS shutdown. Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “Another thing that your colleagues that
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) defended Democrats rejecting an off-ramp on the DHS shutdown and said that Democrats think Republicans “understand that they’re getting blamed for those long lines, and they’re also getting
