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Trump, his cronies, and his allies in the courts keep undercutting the likelihood of a budget deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security when temporary authority expires at the end of this week. The administration’s threat to use ICE agents at polling places to promote voter suppression only intensifies Democrats’ determination to rein in ICE. The larger context is Trump’s delusion that he lost in 2020 only because of illegal voting by noncitizens.
The proposed SAVE America Act, promoted by far-right Republicans in Congress as their price for agreeing to a DHS funding deal, is part of the same grand delusion. It would require government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot and proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Trump’s post on his Truth Social account depicting Michelle and Barack Obama as apes is part of the same syndrome. He can’t accept that Obama won big and he didn’t.
The openly racist post incensed House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who went before the cameras in this clip to declare: “Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom-feeder.” He called on GOP leaders to “denounce this serial fraudster who’s sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pretending to be the president.”
On Sunday, Jeffries said on CNN’s State of the Union that he is not willing to compromise on Democrats’ full list of demands and that he had not heard from the White House, House Speaker Mike Johnson, or Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
In one more action that makes a DHS budget deal vanishingly unlikely, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals late Friday overturned at least 3,000 lower-court rulings by some 360 judges and approved the Trump administration’s rule denying detained immigrants the right to release on bond. The administration has embarked on a crash program to build concentration camp–style detention centers. There are now at least 224 such facilities, more than double the number when Trump took office, holding at least 70,000 immigrants in violation of basic due process rights.
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