Republicans in the US Senate indicated Sunday that they planned to move ahead this week with government funding legislation that includes $10 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a federal agent gunned down intensive-care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a killing captured on video from multiple angles.
“My support for funding ICE remains the same,” declared Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), a sentiment echoed by other GOP lawmakers ahead of votes on a package of six government appropriations bills approved by the US House last week.
“We’re not defunding ICE,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) after the horrific shooting of Pretti. “Live with it.”
Which is why Schumer, Jeffries and every corporate Democrat need to lose to progressives in their next primary.
Replacing people like Jeffries and Schumer won’t change anything, their positions in the party will be replaced by someone willing to keep the status quo unchallenged. No one is ever given any positions of power that may become a threat to the power structure. The only solution is to abandon the duopoly in support of a workers party.