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Thank you. I really cannot explain people being so adamant about hating Democrats to the point of lying unless they're intentionally gunning for a conservative agenda.
Did you forget the budget passed by senate democrats in 2025 still included massive increases in funding for ICE and DHS?
Edit: In order to maintain fairness I did make a mistake. They only approved a continuing resolution that allowed the previously approved FY25 funding to be used. Which was a massive increase
So we get to see what they do at the end of this month, but by passing the continuing resolution they were allowed months to operate at capacity.
The one that zero Democrats voted in favor of? Yes that one.
You may want to check again. DHS recieved all requested funding for fiscal year 2026. This was passed with votes including Senate democrats on November 12th 2025.
You may recall the shutdown and how they could have used the fillabuster. 60-40 vote in favor.
Edit: I'll admit a mistake they only approved a continuing resolution. This allows them access to the same funding approved by the Big Beautiful Bill. Which increased their budget by billions over FY24
Which budget bill besides the OBBB was passed in 2025?
Every year in October of 2025 the Senate must pass a budget for the new fiscal year.
Of course we had a shutdown with the final bill passed on November 12th 2025. Some agencies were not funded and placed on continuing resolution.
DHS, and subsequently ICE, was not one of those agencies. They recieved all requested funding. The Senate decided to keep the budget increases approved by the OBBB for fiscal year 2026.
I know its confusing fiscal year 2026 begins October 2025, but that's the system.
Standard divide and conquer tactics. If they can keep Democrats fighting each other, the Republicans can continue their business uninterrupted.
During 2025 budget negotiations senate democrats ended their fillabuster and approved massive increases for ICE and DHS.
This isn't divide and conquer, these are the facts.
Personally I would like to see them primaried out internally. If that fails they would still be preferable to any opposing republican candidate.
But also if these dems are going to help fund republican agendas how is that going to interrupt the republican agenda?
Democrats voted against the bill. They didn't have enough votes to stop it and they realistically couldn't keep the government shut down til the end of the year. That would be a bigger disaster to Americans than the bill itself. Why are you giving Republicans a free pass on responsibility?
I don't know, I feel like having literal brownshirts running around US cities murdering people was a way worse outcome
They were still doing that during the shutdown. The shutdown didn't impact ICE at all.
Federal funding is complicated, but essentially agencies are only given a portion of a budget to work with from the previous fiscal year. Operations for some agencies are slowed, but not outright stopped. Other agencies stop entirely it depends.
But the more important bit was caving and allowing them a full budget (currently running on the FY25 budget) to run on. They have another chance at the end of January to make another stand with the fillabuster again since they only issued ICE temporary funding (mistake on my part). So those 9 dems have a chance to fix their mistakes and refuse to fund ICE or at the very least drastically decrease their budget to FY 24 spending. Which was billions less.
They let them continue once, they have one more chance to fix it.
I really do hope they do what you say and shut down the government again over ICE. With luck they will only have to keep it shut down until the newly elected democrat majority house takes office in January.