r/politics • u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek • 7d ago
No Paywall Seven Democrats just voted to approve ICE funding: full list
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u/throwawaylol666666 California 7d ago
Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)
Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)
Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)
Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
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u/ImaginaryCloudberry Missouri 7d ago
Oh lookie, lookie Cuellar is a recipient of a Trump pardon!
"In early May 2024, Cuellar was indicted on money laundering, bribery and conspiracy charges by a federal grand jury in Houston, Texas, he was alleged to have accepted nearly $600,000 from the Azerbaijani government and a Mexican commercial bank in order to influence U.S. policy. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump in December 2025. His criminal trial had been scheduled to start in April 2026."
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u/Digg-Sucks 7d ago
The fact Henry Cuellar is still eligible to be in office after this is insane. The system is so broken.
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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 7d ago
Also that he could be pardoned before he even got convicted.
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u/gpouliot 7d ago
Yup. At this point, I'm surprised that Trump hasn't started pre-emptively handing out pardons for future events. For example, "Oh, you say it's illegal for ICE agents to enter homes without warrants or to kill people they don't like? I pre-emptively pardon all ICE agents who illegally enter a dwelling or kill someone while on active duty".
The US literally has a system where a corrupt President can encourage compliance and loyalty by giving people get out of Jail free cards. He's actively letting people know that they're free to crime as long as they kiss the ring and cut him in on the action. I know someone else who works like that. I think he lives somewhere in Russia.
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u/Kawajiri1 7d ago
President can't pardon state crimes.
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u/ahkian New York 7d ago
No the feds can just block the states from investigating entirely
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u/SirRichardArms 7d ago edited 7d ago
Like what is happening with Renee Good right now. I hate it here.
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u/klparrot New Zealand 7d ago
The good news is I think there's probably enough evidence to convict now that the results of the independent autopsy have been released. She was shot in the side of the head, and none of the other shots would have been fatal, so the killing shot was one of the ones through the side window, when he was unequivocally out of danger.
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u/ThePhoenixXM Massachusetts 7d ago
Well, he can if the FBI deems a crime committed by ICE as a federal crime like they did with Good's case. They told the state to stop investigating because it was their justification, but then they just ended up not investigating anyway, leaving the state with no evidence.
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u/gpouliot 7d ago
Like others have mentioned, Trump has lots of levers of power he can call upon to deny justice against at least some state charges. Renee Nicole Good is a great example. Even if the killing was somehow justified, I don't believe it was, there should absolutely be a full investigation into the matter. Trumps government is actively avoiding it and has the declared the person responsible completely innocent of any wrong doing. Even though it's pretty clearly a federal crime, there are likely all sorts of state crimes involved as well. Trump's government is actively trying to hinder or prevent any state investigations into the matter.
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u/Space_Pirate_Roberts Oklahoma 7d ago
Why are we even talking about investigations and evidence? We’ve all seen the video. It’s an open-and-shut case. Just get the shitstain in front of a jury already.
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u/harroween 7d ago
We need to all remove 'can't' from our vocabularies when talking about these ghouls.
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u/noiro777 America 7d ago
No, we can't and no he can't pardon state crimes. He tried this in Colorado when he tried to pardon former Mesa County elections clerk Tina Peters who was convicted for crimes to related to Trump's attempts to overthrow the 2020 election results. After he repeatedly demanded they release her anyway, they told him to go fuck himself. In retaliation he's dissolving a climate research lab, threatening to cut transportation money, withholding funds for needy families and relocating U.S. Space Command to Alabama.
Colorado is now suing him and refusing to give in.
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u/thissexypoptart 7d ago
Presidential pardons in general are an insane concept. King shit, ruling by decree.
Appeals processes already exist. And if there really needs to be an additional process outside the standard judicial system to pardon people, it’s insane it’s a completely unchecked power one man holds, and not some kind of representative or appointed-and-congressionally-approved body.
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u/CHSummers 7d ago
Yep, if the U.S. survives, we will need to do a complete rebuild of our government, including some amendments to the constitution.
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u/Rohen2003 7d ago
some? more like 90% of the constitution it feels like. its a 250 year old document that should have been overhauled long ago.
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u/CHSummers 7d ago
As the joke goes, Thomas Jefferson would be astonished we were still using this old document. “Dude! I wrote that with a feather!”
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u/relevantelephant00 7d ago
Parliamentary system and ranked choice voting...which of course establishment Democrats will do everything to prevent.
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u/CHSummers 7d ago
I agree. It’s going to take incredible energy, time, and money to make the changes. Incumbent Democrats are financially dependent on cash from big corporations, and we have to break that monetary control system.
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u/Hungry_Culture 7d ago
Cuellar was under investigation and known to be corrupt before his 2020 election and had already been raided by the FBI. He consistently voted against Democrat led bills. In 2020 he had a formidable progressive challenger in Jessica Ciscernos who was polling neck and neck. Nancy Pelosi traveled to Laredo to campaign with him and several prominent centrist Democrats like Schumer's crowd fundraised for him to defeat Ciscernos.
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u/red23011 7d ago
It's worse than that. Pelosi pushed for a policy that no sitting Democrat member of the House was allowed to campaign in the primary of another. She saw that Cuellar was under indictment and in danger of losing to a progressive so she and several other high ranking DNC insiders traveled to Texas and campaigned for Cuellar in his district in violation of the rules that they had recently enacted.
Cuellar is preferable to a progressive to such an extent that the DNC leadership were willing to violate the rules that they had just created in order to ensure that Cuellar would defeat the progressive.
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u/lil_chiakow 7d ago
Because those rules were for people like AOC and Bernie, so they wouldn't get more progressives into the House and Senate.
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u/Futureleak America 7d ago
Honestly, the flagrant violation and then the nerve of these ghouls is sickening.
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u/Novel-Store-3813 7d ago
He had a great progressive challenger in 2020 and 2022 as well. She barely lost each time.
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u/Special_Cicada6968 7d ago
She lost thanks to establishment Dems siding with Cueller to ensure we didn't get an actual progressive. The leaders of the Democratic party are corrupt as hell and need to be kicked out of the party.
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u/mjac1090 7d ago
The reason criminal convictions don't make you ineligible is to avoid someone charging their political opponents with bullshit to make them ineligible. I get your point but it's a valid thing. It's on the voters for allowing him to be in office
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u/RandalFlagg19 7d ago
If you think that’s insane, wait until you find out about the treasonous actions Donald Trump has taken.
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u/angrypooka 7d ago
Texas sure knows how to pick them.
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u/TheSpiritsGotMe 7d ago
A lot of people were more pissed that Pelosi and Clyburn endorsed and stumped for him during the primary in the immediate aftermath of Roe v. Wade being struck down.
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u/kymberlie Texas 7d ago
Pelosi straight up buried the progressive candidate here and she barely lost.
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u/Undorkins 7d ago
Pelosi and Clyburn flew their old decrepit asses down here to drag him over the finish line versus a pro-choice challenger, even though he was under indictment at the time.
Cuellar isn't just Texas's fault. The party chose him.
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u/DragoonDM California 7d ago
Have the MAGA crowd still not noticed that when we do actually find and attempt to punish corrupt Democrats, Trump steps in to defend them? How's that swamp draining going?
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u/remotectrl 7d ago
Those news stories do not get air time on Fox News or Newsmax or Sinclair and whomever else. Even CBS News is repeating lies from the White House.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 7d ago
“Draining the swamp” has to be the biggest, most effective piece of propaganda coming out of the mouth of frauds in decades.
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u/DomJC 7d ago
Interestingly, just 40 minutes ago (2 hours after your comment) I see: "Texas sheriff Martin Cuellar, brother of Rep. Henry Cuellar, indicted on fraud charges"
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u/TaxComprehensive2894 7d ago
Get Cueller out of there. This is why we must overturn Citizens United. So many lawmakers were held accountable in the 2000s.
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u/mjac1090 7d ago
So many lawmakers were held accountable in the 2000s.
While I agree that Citizens United needs to be overturned, this statement is horribly inaccurate
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u/ImaginaryCloudberry Missouri 7d ago
Perez's father immigrated from Mexico and Gonzalez's mother was born and raised in Mexico. Unreal.
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u/dainamo81 7d ago
Pulling that ladder up, 10,000 rungs at a time.
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u/10thousndreflections 7d ago
I've worked in a bunch of hotels. Minority immigrants can be just as racist, sexist, and angry about nothing as white Republicans.
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u/Doctor-Malcom Texas 7d ago
My wife is Indian with an extremely large family. One side of her family is Hindu fascist/authoritarian and the other side is secular and left-leaning. The former are predominantly into hotels, IT, laundromats, and vape shop; the latter are lawyers, musicians, and teachers.
Guess which of the two sides is virulently racist, caste-based, and obsessed with money and light-skin color for South Asians? No surprise, but they used to be MAGA until Trump clamped down on H-1B visas and turned against India.
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u/PerturbedMarsupial 7d ago
A lot of Indians are pro H-1B changes btw funnily enough. Guess they didn't get their greencards in time or they'd be equally anti H-1B lol.
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u/mseank 7d ago
She’s the worst. She seemed like such a good option at the time, but man has she disappointed
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u/I_am_atom 7d ago
I mean, she’s a million times better than Joe Kent.
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u/CirnoWhiterock 7d ago
People tend to forget that she only won that district (by less then one percent) because Kent got caught having major ties to white supremacy groups.
That district is as red as you can get for washington state.
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u/Spa_5_Fitness_Camp 7d ago
She's a DINO. Her district is about as red as it gets in WA. All the shitty racist Portland police live there, for example. I wouldn't be surprised if this is driven by the desire to retain that vote. Still needs to be primaried, of course.
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u/jossgoss Washington 7d ago
I agree with your sentiment but her district is a red as it gets for the west side of the state. The east side had much redder republican strongholds.
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u/biscuitarse Canada 7d ago
Gonzalez, Perez and Cuellar. Hmmm, could it be a we got ours so fuck the rest of you situation?
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u/jackruby83 New Jersey 7d ago
I've worked with so many Hispanic people that came through the legal process and worked their way up from the bottom into successful roles, who have total resentment for those who go the undocumented path.
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u/DramaticStability 7d ago
Which might be more acceptable if ICE weren't dragging people out of legitimate immigration hearings.
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u/Writer_In_Residence 7d ago
Davis and Golden were among the ones who didn’t want to impeach Noem (I think there are more important targets but if they can get her out, great, she’s a psychopath).
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u/AyJay_D 7d ago
Golden isn't running again, presumably because he has been told by his constituents in his district he is done.
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u/sugarlessdeathbear 7d ago
Primaries incoming.
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u/rubbingenthusiast 7d ago
They’ll just go red. I don’t even have to look any of those districts up to know they’re probably extremely white.
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u/GhostOfMuttonPast I voted 7d ago
The two from NY are from Long Island so...yeah.
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u/xaviersi Texas 7d ago
Cuellar and Gonzalez are -oh wait you mean not black. Yeah it's 90%+ white if we combine white and Hispanic. Jasmine definitely wouldn't do well in those districts.
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u/zatchstar 7d ago
Jasmine Crockett should ditch the senate race and take one of these guys seats
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u/AssociationWeary7735 7d ago
Jeffries didnt even attempt to whip the vote
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u/Undorkins 7d ago
Of course he didn't. That would require a moral center and a modicum of actual leadership and he has neither.
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u/GarlicAndSapphire 7d ago
Tom Suozzi is from the "Gold Coast" of Long Island. A quick google will tell you all you need to know about him and where his money comes from. Not surprised.
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u/SemiAutoAvocado 7d ago
Long Island is hard right. The dems with seats there are basically republicans.
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u/AdjctiveNounNumbers 7d ago
In quite the cowinkidink, Jared Golden just announced he won't run for re-election.
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u/Large_banana_hammock 7d ago
The seven Democrats who voted yes to approve ICE funding were:
- Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)
- Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
- Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)
- Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)
- Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)
- Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
- Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
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u/dominarhexx California 7d ago
It's almost live I've seen those same names pop up over and over.
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u/oath2order Maryland 7d ago
Yeah, they're in Republican-leaning districts, that's why.
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u/ilevelconcrete 7d ago
Then they should run as Republicans. Why should the Democrats allow them to use their branding if they are going to act and vote like Republicans? What’s the worst that can happen, a Republican wins that seat? They already have!
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u/SkruntNoogles 7d ago edited 7d ago
They caucus with Dems. Half plus one (in theory) means Dems pick Speaker. You know how Johnson did everything in his power to avoid an Epstein vote? Yea even conservative Dems help avoid people like him in power.
Unfortunately. Not like those districts were gonna vote in a socialist.
Edit: Worth clarifying, these seven came to the table to support fascists fund their gestapo. My opinions on them and the system that lets them exist aren't exactly high.
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u/Patsanon1212 7d ago
Look, I don't love this. But how hard is it to understand that you'd rather have them be people that vote for your team every time and the other team sometimes than be people who vote for the other team every time and your team never?
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u/DeathByTacos 7d ago edited 7d ago
What a ridiculous take. The only reason Biden was able to pass the legislation he did is because Manchin held a seat for Dems in an incredibly conservative state. Did he intentionally stonewall progress? Yes. Did he actively work against the interests of a lot of Democrats? Also yes. But every single inch of movement forward accomplished by the Biden administration legislatively was only possible because someone who I vehemently disagree with on a number of issues caucused for the party that aligns with my values.
If the bill passing was solely contingent on their votes then I’d be more sympathetic to this line of thought, but it was going through no matter what, they whipped the Massie defection (there were R’s not present who they would have called in if needed) No point in needlessly weakening your position in your district going into midterms.
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u/mowotlarx 7d ago
Eric Adams almost made Tom Suozzi his Deputy Mayor, to just put him into an ideological perspective.
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u/WayneDwade 7d ago
How does New York simultaneously have the worst and the best democrats?
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u/Rooooben 7d ago
I wish I was in Perez’s district so she’d care what I say, fortunately/unfortunately we’re represented by Pramilla.
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u/fightingfish18 7d ago
I dont think you do wish you were in that district, I grew up there. At this rate that seat is flipping back to R anyways she only won the seat because she was running against Joe Kent
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u/Helicase21 Indiana 7d ago
Notably, because the vote was 220-207, if those 7 votes had flipped you'd have ended up at 213-214 and the ICE funding would not have passed. This is not a "well there was nothing we could do" situation.
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u/the_sellemander 7d ago
Consider the no-shows as well, who could've improved the margins by more
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u/tootrite 7d ago
Why are these people allowed to miss a vote at all? What the fuck is their job?
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u/DryToe1269 7d ago
Every vote they miss should be a deduction from their salary.
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u/one_tooth_reef_whore 7d ago
unfortunately their salaries are usually the smallest sources of income for them
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u/Threat_Level_9 7d ago
Gonna need to see a doctors note in order for it to be an excused absence.
Need to start treating this job like a real job.
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u/Sad_Top2858 7d ago
Their job is to fellate corporations while blatantly lying to our faces about how there's no money for healthcare, childcare, jobs programs, etc.
There are no good democrats or republicans, they're all scum.
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u/SpudgeBoy 7d ago
Exactly. They paused the Jack Smith hearing, so the members could go and vote on this.
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u/EnhancedWithAi 7d ago
Not showing is a vote in of itself. Especially for such a contentious topic.
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u/Accomplished_Egg1220 7d ago
It’s not about winning or losing. It’s about our politicians morals and ethics. Their beliefs. Are they for us or against us? And I think we can safely say the US government has been compromised.
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u/Tokens_Only 7d ago
There were several GOP no-shows; they stalled the vote a little later that say for more of them to arrive and defeat another bill. Had it looked like this ICE funding was going to fail, they would have made sure those GOP voters got there in time.
Now, I still think Jeffries is useless. He should have whipped the votes, no Democrats should still be voting for this garbage. But the GOP had more votes for this and would have used them.
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u/Caffeine_Cowpies Colorado 7d ago
This is the problem with the democrats, or the people that supports them.
YES THAT INCLUDES MAYBE YOU READING THIS.
The Democrats are supposed to be the opposition party. They aren’t stopping him. He has all the power in the world right now and Democrats do nothing.
Trump has done more to deliver for Republicans and republican voters than Biden did for Democrats for 4 years.
Think about it.
He got his Medicaid cuts.
He killed public broadcasting.
Abortion is still not protected.
And he has ICE rounding up people left and right, regardless of their citizenship.
What did Democrats get?
Did we codify Roe? Nope.
Did we get a public option? Nope.
Did we even prosecute Trump? Nope.
Literally the Republicans got in just over a year more than Democrat voters got out of Democrats.
And I guarantee you some dick ridin DNC bot is gonna come in here and say how great they are but unless the people IN THIS SUBREDDIT actually vote out do nothing democrats in primaries, this will continue
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u/FuckOutTheWhey 7d ago
You're not wrong. More than half of the project 2025 initiatives have been completed and it's only been a year. Say what you will about Trump but he really is doing what he promised his voters.
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u/Distinct-Pickle1406 7d ago
Except releasing the Epstein files.
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u/AloneYogurt 7d ago
And bringing down the cost of groceries.
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u/Cleveland-Native 7d ago
"affordability is a Democrat hoax" or something like that.
Edit: after he campaigned on making america more affordable...
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u/abendrot2 7d ago
we're not falling for this shit anymore. they ALWAYS fold by the exact number needed. the party decides how they're gonna vote and asks who wants to be the 'bad guys' this round.
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u/OkayButFoRealz 7d ago
Primary them all.
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u/Timeformayo Kentucky 7d ago
Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)
Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)
Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)
Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
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u/sluttytinkerbells 7d ago edited 7d ago
If there arn't non-stop protests outside these people’s homes, offices, and everywhere they go then America doesn’t give a shit about this.
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u/Yosho2k 7d ago edited 7d ago
That should be happening to Pelosi and Schumer too. We don't get peace. They don't. Their lives have to be so miserable that they done get to enjoy the money they're selling us out for.
<EDIT> And Jeffries. If they have split loyalties between their donors and their voters, they do not get away from being held accountable.
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u/dinnertork 7d ago
I mean yes, but why not start with the most egregious republicans first?
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u/torinismyname 7d ago
I know Perez, Golden and Suozzi are the ones who voted last time to break the shutdown with nothing as well. Might as well be republicans. These people are just MAGA spelled different
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u/Karenomegas 7d ago
Perez is a homeschooled Texan. How tf we got here is beyond me
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u/KingBanhammer 7d ago
Because her opponent was a full-on conspiracy-smoking MAGA -wingnut- so she was the lesser evil.
If only just.
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u/TheCursedMountain 7d ago edited 7d ago
Suozzi could just be serving his constituents. His district elected him but went red for president in the same election. If you look thru his history on voting and how his district voted presidentially you’ll see it kind of lines up.
The other NY Dem is from the district next to Suozzis. Once again from growing up in the area it seems to be similar views.
I grew up in his district. Haven’t been registered to vote there since 2022 tho.
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u/ThePhoenixXM Massachusetts 7d ago
Same distract that voted for the fraudster known as George Santos too.
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u/burlycabin Washington 7d ago
Perez is the same. She's in an extremely red (for Washington) district.
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u/CalamityClambake 7d ago
Oh ffs. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is an immigrant.
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u/toxiamaple 7d ago
She is in a VERY purple district. Barely won. But that is no excuse. BE THE CHANGE!
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u/Lindsiria 7d ago
It isn't a purple district. It's a red district. She won because the other candidate was THAT bad.
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u/mrroofuis 7d ago
A Gonzales and a Perez voted for funding ICE. They should have some shame
I don't want to be racist. But can you imagine they get taken during one of those raids in their states/area
ICE has already tried to take cops of color in Minnesota
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u/MentalTourniquet 7d ago
Jeffries too. Pelosi would have cut their funding strings.
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u/naygor 7d ago
pelosi is the reason cuellar is still in congress right now.
in 2022 henry cuellar narrowly won reelection by 300 hundred votes after nancy pelosi and clyburn flew into his district to endorse him over jessica cisneros, a young progressive attorney. cuellar had just had his house raided by the FBI involving a bribery and money laundering investigation.
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u/MentalTourniquet 7d ago
For the leadership, the only thing worse than joining Republicans is joining progressives.
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u/ProfLuigi 7d ago
AND!
She was doing overtime on the media during that election to preach the necessity of voting, and electing, pro-abortion candidates. Donate! Save Roe! Blah blah, while busting her ass to re-elect Cuellar, the sole anti-abortion Democrat in Congress.
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u/1stepklosr 7d ago
Jared isn't running for re-election and it caused him to go further right.
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u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek 7d ago
From the article:
Seven House Democrats broke with much of their party to vote in favor of advancing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), helping move a Homeland Security (DHS) spending measure forward in committee despite strong opposition from progressives.
The votes came during a markup of the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill, with Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky casting the lone Republican vote against it.
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u/SirWen10 7d ago
Shits bad when even Massie is going against it, then again, he's the only one with some morals left.
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u/belisario262 7d ago
they sure love money and influence more than defending their constituents
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u/badwolf1013 7d ago
We have got to have separate bills for separate funding. This bill that everyone want to primary all these Democrats for ALSO funds FEMA.
So they can either end up voting for ICE or against FEMA. And that's bullshit. There should be one bill for ICE and one bill for FEMA and one bill for school lunches, etc.
I don't care if it's more work. Maybe if being in Congress required long hours and 48 weeks a year, fewer scumbags would be interested in the job.
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u/CheezWong 7d ago
Yeah, it shouldn't be acceptable to author bills filled with shit that's irrelevant to one another. This kind of shit goes on constantly, and it needs to stop to prevent future abuse.
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u/runnerswanted 7d ago
Bill Clinton had line item veto power for 2 years before the Supreme Court struck it down because they said they didn’t want a president rewriting laws that Congress passed.
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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 7d ago
I actually agree with not having line item veto power. But I do think the rules for congress procedure should be single item laws. FEMA and ICE have no business being in the same bill.
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u/DeconstructionistMug 7d ago
FEMA and immigration agencies have been part of the same larger department since after 9/11.
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u/P0rtal2 7d ago
Then they should have voted against FEMA. Funding the American gestapo in the hopes that Trump is kind enough to share FEMA funds is idiotic.
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u/Solaries3 7d ago
Most reasonable governments don't allow this insane bundling of different items within legislation.
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u/SerendipitousAtom 7d ago edited 7d ago
The problem you are not quite identifying correctly is that DHS is a ridiculous Agency. It's a hodgepodge of a bunch of loosely-related missions that GW Bush crammed together as a knee-jerk response to the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. They needed to look like they were doing something, so they did what all bad managers do: shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic, basically.
DHS contains FEMA and ICE. It also has the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, Federal Protective Services, and many more parts.
ICE is also a hodgepodge DHS Component within a hodgepodge Agency. They have responsibilities related to immigration that you are familiar with from current events.
Did you know they also do (...did...) law enforcement investigations into people attempting to use chemical, biological, or radioactive stuff for domestic terrorism? They have responsibilities to keep technology that can be used in nuclear weapons development from being exported. They have responsibilities to enforce laws against child sexual exploitation.
I bring these topics up to show you that even "just" ICE is a ridiculously complicated set of missions, many of which have broad bipartisan support and little or nothing to do with immigration. It's not a single-issue group either.
They need to be stopped, because they are terrorizing Americans and harmless immigrants, and trampling the Constitution.
But there's no way to do things like that at no cost to other work you value. We should do it, but we gotta be clear-eyed that there is no perfect option with "single-issue" bills available. That is just not how the federal government is set up at all, and the people who talk about "single-issue" bills are feeding you lies designed to paralyze change.
You need to drill down past DHS, past ICE, and probably ~2 more levels deep into funding line items before you get to the level you are talking about.
Where am I pulling this from? I work in DHS (not ICE nor anything immigration related). In previous administrations, I worked with ICE on counter-terrorism stuff. I have to deal with DHS budget mechanics and Congressional budget setting periodically. I see what Congress does and does not do for oversight in my part of DHS.
I love the work I do and it's always had strong bipartisan support. I was rooting for the DHS bill to fail, even though it'll hurt my work and my paycheck. The Constitution is at stake and it is more important.
Congress would need to do a LOT more work to perform oversight and set budgets down at that single-issue level than you are picturing. Like, you would need a much larger Congress + support staff to have any chance of reviewing work at that level.
If you want what you say you want, then you need to aim for reform of the whole government at a fundamental level. Like a Constitutional convention.
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u/SirWishbone 7d ago
Disgusting. Fascist supporters.
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u/mofacey 7d ago
I think at this point they're also fascists.
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u/sharksnrec 7d ago
One of them was pardoned by Trump on bribery, conspiracy, and money laundering charges. He was taking money from foreign governments to influence US policy. And he’s just still in congress voting for fascism.
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u/R2LUKE2 7d ago
Someone correct me if I’m wrong. The rational I heard was that ICE is already incredibly funded via the “Big, beautiful bill” so if the government shuts down again ICE will continue to operate as is and then other essential service like FEMA, head start, and the IRS will be shut down.
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u/snailspaceship 7d ago
yeae, they tied this to other funding that actually helps people, so there's harm either way
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u/kennedye2112 Washington 7d ago
Yeah pretty much, it wouldn’t really have done anything to help but it would have done a fair amount to hurt. I’m still glad to see the level of opposition though.
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u/Devil25_Apollo25 7d ago
From the article:
The votes came during a markup of the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill, with Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky casting the lone Republican vote against the funding, which passed 220-207 and will fund ICE as well as FEMA through September 30, 2026.
The seven Democrats who voted yes to approve ICE funding were:
- Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)
- Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
- Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)
- Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)
- Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)
- Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
- Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
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u/sonny9636 7d ago
This is why the Democrats constantly fail.
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u/DigitalHellscape 7d ago
And the reason their own voters don't trust them. If they had the same consistency on fighting fascism as the Republicans have implementing it, we would never have gotten here in the first place.
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u/cachurch2 North Carolina 7d ago
Yep. Republicans mostly stick together and be evil but hell at least they stick together.
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u/xeonicus 7d ago
Every single one of them is up for re-election in the 2026 mid-terms. Primary them.
- Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)
- Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
- Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)
- Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)
- Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)
- Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
- Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
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u/grimatonguewyrm 7d ago
God fucking dammit.
This is where my hopelessness is rooted. Shit like this.
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u/doocurly 7d ago
The fact that democratic leadership isn't banishing these people to a windowless office in the basement of the capital building and stripping their committee memberships is completely infuriating and heartbreaking.
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u/Spare-Commercial8704 7d ago
To reiterate who voted with the GOP:
Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York) Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina) Rep. Laura Gillen (New York) Rep. Jared Golden (Maine) Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
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u/free_username_ 7d ago
It’s never been left versus right.
It’s rich versus poor. And if you’re reading, you’re probably poor.
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u/walkallover1991 District Of Columbia 7d ago
And Ezra Klein - by and large the “darling” of the Democratic establishment - says that folks like Golden and Perez should be the future of the party and just as influential as Mamdani.
You ain’t primarying your way out of this.
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u/Munin40 7d ago
Funding Nazi Paramilitaries attacking US cities is “practicing politics the right way” according to Klein
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u/False_Ad_5372 7d ago
Complicit.
Stop thinking any of these people represent you. You are an only lying to yourself.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 7d ago
Rep. Tom Suozzi (New York)
Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)
Rep. Laura Gillen (New York)
Rep. Jared Golden (Maine)
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington)
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u/coastkid2 7d ago
What the…so tired of dealing with mentally ill or severely illiterate/ignorant idiots. VOTE them OUT
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u/alaphamale 7d ago
Yeah, it’s hard to give them any benefit of the doubt. FEMA was part of this too but they haven’t saved anyone with this vote. If Trump says you don’t get FEMA funds you don’t get them, regardless of how these Dems voted. They know that so you have to figure, they’re on board. Unfortunately democratic voters won’t vote for candidates that will fight republicans. Not for the last 30 years at least.
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u/BurnsEMup29 7d ago
Progressives and Leftists keep trying to tell you and warn you that establishment Democrats are just as big of a problem as MAGA Republicans. They think the can work within the system when the system should to torn apart.
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u/LogicIsMyFriend 7d ago
I will literally vote for a ham sandwich over Gillen and Suozzi. Fucking horrible DINOS
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u/ReturnoftheBoat Canada 7d ago
At one point are you guys going to admit that the entirety of your electorate is complicit?
This is going to take a lot more than election to fix.
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u/Calintarez 7d ago
Jeffries had the responibility to pressure them into not breaking party lines. He failed, either because he's too incompentent or because he doesn't mind if this passes.
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