Images of Handcuffed Democrats Are Piling Up in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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Democrats itching for fight over immigration
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is leading the charge. He’s demanding that the masked ICE officers involved in the fracas be publicly identified. The call drew immediate howls from officials with the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans have long-accused Democrats of siding with people in the country illegally over the rule of law. Trump has built his political brand around an “America First” message that helped propel him into the White House in 2016 and again in 2024. The pushback is a clear sign that they’re not shying away from the immigration issue, regardless of the potential pitfalls. The strategy has its risks, but polls indicate that his approach to immigration is the sole exception, winning more supporters than detractors. The fight is just one front of a much broader fight that Democrats are taking up this year, including immigration in the Senate and the House of Representatives, and in the courts. The battle is expected to go on for months.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is leading the charge. Not only has he waged an animated defense of Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who is facing federal charges following a recent scuffle with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside a migrant detention center in New Jersey, but he’s also demanding that the masked ICE officers involved in the fracas — and Trump’s broader mass deportation campaign — be publicly identified.
“Every single ICE agent who is engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.
“This is America,” he added. “This is not the Soviet Union. We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.”
The call drew immediate howls from officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other Republicans, who have long-accused Democrats of siding with people in the country illegally over the rule of law — a major theme of Trump’s successful campaign last year. Many of the GOP critics are accusing Democrats of putting the safety of federal law enforcement officers in jeopardy.
“We take threats to law enforcement very seriously. As the state leading the nation in immigration enforcement, FL will not sit idly by and allow agents from DHS/ICE and/or state and local agencies to be targeted,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) posted on X, linking to Jeffries’s comments.
DeSantis said he’s instructed Florida law enforcers to be on the lookout for any “doxxing” campaigns aimed at law enforcers, and to respond quickly.
“Sabotaging the work of those in the immigration enforcement arena will not stand!” he wrote.
Capitol Hill Republicans are piling on. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) this week introduced legislation designed to shield federal law enforcers from doxxing. Violators could face five years in prison.
The pushback has done little to dissuade Jeffries, who on Thursday doubled down on his identification push, wondering why those involved in Trump’s mass deportation campaign should enjoy privileges of anonymity that others in law enforcement don’t.
“It seems to me that the officials at the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, should be held to the same standards as every other part of law enforcement in terms of transparency,” he said.
The strategy has its risks.
Trump has built his political brand around an “America First” message that helped propel him into the White House in 2016 and again in 2024. His “big, beautiful bill” working its way through Congress includes, as a central feature, an immigration crackdown that helped usher the bill through the House last month. And while Trump’s approval rating is underwater across almost every major issue, including the economy, recent polls indicate that his approach to immigration is the sole exception, winning more supporters than detractors.
Still, the Democrats’ aggressive pushback against Trump’s policies is a clear sign that they’re not shying away from the immigration issue, regardless of the potential pitfalls. And the de-masking of ICE agents is just one front of a much broader fight they’re taking up this year.
In recent weeks, Democrats have also rallied behind immigrants deported without due process, including a Maryland resident who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador. They’ve staged public protests outside migrant detention centers, like the one in Newark that led to McIver’s arrest. And top Democrats are up in arms after DHS agents stormed into the district office of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and handcuffed a staffer with accusations that aides were “harboring” immigration “rioters.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, characterized the latter incident as “intolerable.”
“I’m relieved this situation was resolved, but DHS’s actions — first, in attempting to enter the office without a warrant or consent, and then proceeding to handcuff and detain a terrified young congressional staffer without cause — were the stuff of police in a banana republic or a gangster state,” Raskin said in an email.
“This outrageous behavior reflects an alarming disregard for the law and a shocking disrespect for the people’s House and the lawmaking branch of government,” he continued. “DHS does not have the authority to barge into congressional offices with vague demands and arrest or intimidate legislative staffers. We will not tolerate such lawlessness.”
Raskin and Nadler are pressing Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), to stage hearings on the unusual incident.
The most recent battleline of the partisan immigration war arrived this week, when Trump announced a travel ban affecting 12 countries. The makeup of the targets — largely African or Middle Eastern countries with mostly non-white populations — were not overlooked by Democrats, some of whom accused the president of using official policy to promote bigotry.
“Make no mistake: Trump’s latest travel ban will NOT make America safer,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote on X. “We cannot continue to allow the Trump administration to write bigotry and hatred into U.S. immigration policy.”
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) delivered a similar warning.
“From his first Muslim Ban, Trump’s travel bans have always betrayed … the ideals and values that inspired America’s Founders,” Beyer posted on X. “Trump’s use of prejudice and bigotry to bar people from entering the U.S. does not make us safer, it just divides us and weakens our global leadership.”
Trump Lied About Deportation of 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen, Lawyers Say
Three U.S. citizens were deported with their children over the weekend. One of the children has stage 4 cancer. The mother was not allowed to speak to her family before she was deported. The children were placed on deportation flights at their mothers’ request, their attorneys say. The women are suing the government for the illegal deportations.
Attorneys for the women and three U.S.-born children say their deportations over the weekend were illegal and the administration’s claims that the children were placed on deportation flights at their mothers’ request are false. One mother wasn’t allowed to speak with a lawyer or her family before she was deported with her children, even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement knew that one of them has stage 4 cancer.
That child, a 4-year-old boy, left the country without access to his cancer medication along with his 7-year-old sister, also a U.S. citizen. Their mother “did not consent to any of this,” according to attorney Mich P. González.
“She did not sign anything, did not write anything, and did not consent to anything expressly. The entire time she was trying very aggressively to speak to her lawyer,” González told NBC News. “As a matter of fact, she was trying to get ahold of a phone to try to call her family and her attorney. But she wasn’t being allowed.”
In another case, a mother of a 2-year-old American citizen about to be deported was given less than two minutes on the phone with her husband to decide what to do with their child. She had been told by ICE to take her children to her routine check-in, moved up from the original date, when she was detained.
Exclusive: Thousands of agents diverted to Trump immigration crackdown
Critics argue crackdown diverts resources from other crimes, making America less safe. President Donald Trump pledges to deport “millions and millions’ of “criminal aliens” Thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers. “I do not recall ever seeing this wide a spectrum of federal government resources all being turned toward immigration enforcement,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, a former Homeland Security official. “When you’re telling agencies to stop what you’ve been doing and do this now, whatever else they were doing takes a back seat,” she said. “President Trump views what has happened over the last couple years truly as an invasion, so that’s how we’re trying to remedy that,” said U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in an interview with Reuters. “We are not simultaneously full-force going after violent crime,” the FBI said in a statement. “The FBI said it is “protecting the U.s. from many threats,” the White House did not respond.
Item 1 of 2 Federal officers carrying out U.S. immigration enforcement near Rockville, Maryland, U.S., prepare a Filipino man for transport to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office for processing, February 6, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Summary Federal agents diverted from crime-fighting to immigration enforcement
Critics argue crackdown diverts resources from other crimes, making America less safe
Trump administration defends shift, citing immigration as a national security threat
WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) – Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally.
Homeland Security investigators who specialize in money laundering are raiding restaurants and other small businesses looking for immigrants who aren’t authorized to work.
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Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law.
As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport “millions and millions” of “criminal aliens,” thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas — from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud.
This account of Trump’s push to reorganize federal law enforcement – the most significant since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – is based on interviews with more than 20 current and former federal agents, attorneys and other federal officials. Most had first-hand knowledge of the changes. Nearly all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss their work.
“I do not recall ever seeing this wide a spectrum of federal government resources all being turned toward immigration enforcement,” said Theresa Cardinal Brown, a former Homeland Security official who has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations. “When you’re telling agencies to stop what you’ve been doing and do this now, whatever else they were doing takes a back seat.”
In response to questions from Reuters, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the U.S. government is “mobilizing federal and state law enforcement to find, arrest, and deport illegal aliens.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to respond to questions about its staffing. In a statement, the FBI said it is “protecting the U.S. from many threats.” The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
The Trump administration has offered no comprehensive accounting of the revamp. But it echoes the aftermath of the 2001 attacks, when Congress created the Department of Homeland Security that pulled together 169,000 federal employees from other agencies and refocused the FBI on battling terrorism.
Trump’s hardline approach to deporting immigrants has intensified America’s already-stark partisan divide. The U.S. Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, described the crackdown as a “wasteful, misguided diversion of resources.” In a statement to Reuters, he said it was “making America less safe” by drawing agents and officials away from fighting corporate fraud, terrorism, child sexual exploitation and other crimes.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in an interview with Reuters, denied the changes across federal law enforcement were hindering other important criminal investigations. “I completely reject the idea that because we’re prioritizing immigration that we are not simultaneously full-force going after violent crime.”
He said the crackdown was warranted. “President Trump views what has happened over the last couple years truly as an invasion, so that’s how we’re trying to remedy that.”
On January 20, his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order , opens new tab directing federal agencies to team up to fight “an invasion” of illegal immigrants. He cast the nation’s estimated 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally as the driving factor behind crime, gang violence and drug trafficking – assertions not supported by government statistics , opens new tab – and accused immigrants of draining U.S. government resources and depriving citizens of jobs.
Almost immediately, federal law enforcement started posting photos of the crackdown to social media: agents wore body armor and jackets emblazoned with names of multiple agencies – including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, known as ATF – during raids on immigrants without proper legal status.
Before this year, ATF had played almost no role in immigration enforcement. It typically investigated firearms offenses, bombings, arson and illicit shipments of alcohol and tobacco.
But since Trump’s inauguration, about 80% of its roughly 2,500 agents have been ordered to take on at least some immigration enforcement tasks, two officials familiar with ATF’s operations said. The ATF agents are being used largely as “fugitive hunters” to find migrants living in the U.S. illegally, one of the officials said.
The DEA, whose roughly 10,000 staff have led the nation’s efforts to battle drug cartels, has shifted about a quarter of its work to immigration operations, said a former official briefed by current DEA leaders on the changes. Two other former officials described the commitment as “substantial” but did not know precisely how much work shifted.
Many of the reassigned federal officials have had little training or experience in immigration law, the sources said. The State Department’s 2,500 Security Service agents, for instance, typically protect diplomats and root out visa and passport fraud. They’ve been authorized to assist with “investigating, determining the location of, and apprehending, any alien” in the U.S. unlawfully, according to a February 18 memo from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to the U.S. Secretary of State.
The ATF and the State Department acknowledged in a statement they are helping with immigration enforcement, but declined to elaborate on specific staffing decisions.
The changes coincide with extraordinary immigration measures that have prompted dozens of lawsuits claiming that Trump’s presidency is exceeding constitutional limits and other legal boundaries. These include deporting alleged members of a Venezuelan gang under an 18th-century wartime powers act and detaining a Columbia University student activist with legal permanent residency status over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.
The White House has said it is acting within the limits of the Constitution and that it was protecting the safety and jobs of U.S. citizens.
The results, so far, are mixed: the number of migrants seeking to cross the southern U.S. border in February was the lowest in decades and the number of people detained over immigration violations has surged. That hasn’t yet led to an increase in deportations, but experts expect a jump in those numbers in coming months
“STOP AND FRISK”
The focus on immigration is drawing significant resources away from other crime-fighting departments, according to the more than 20 sources who spoke to Reuters.
Until January, pursuing immigrants living in the country illegally was largely the job of just two agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and Customs and Border Protection, with a combined staff of 80,000. Other departments spent little time on deportations.
That’s changing.
At Homeland Security Investigations, the top investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, scores of agents who specialize in child sexual exploitation have been reassigned to immigration enforcement, said Matthew Allen, a former senior HSI official who now leads the Association of Customs and HSI Special Agents, whose members include about 1,000 current and former agents.
Over the past two years, those HSI agents have helped more than 3,000 child victims, often after complex probes, DHS data shows. “There’s a good argument that these changes will lead to some child victims continuing to be exploited,” said Allen.
While HSI falls under the control of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, its team of 7,100 special agents typically play little part in routine immigration enforcement. They usually probe national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, human trafficking, illegal arms exports, financial crimes, child sex crimes and intellectual property theft. Immigration enforcement has been left to another ICE branch known as Enforcement and Removal Operations.
But on January 31, HSI staff received an internal email from a top official with a new mission of “protecting the American people against invasion.”
Going forward, the memo said, HSI special agents and other employees should be prepared to play an increasingly critical role in detaining and deporting immigrants, or barring their entry at U.S. borders.
Recently, HSI has been offering training to employees unfamiliar with immigration enforcement. This includes how to lure immigrants out of their homes for interrogation in so-called “knock and talk” visits, conduct stop and frisk operations, or carry out warrantless arrests, according to previously unreported internal documents shared with Reuters.
HSI’s new work also includes checking if companies have hired unauthorized immigrants, surveillance outside of immigrant workers’ homes, taking down license plates and distributing photos of “target” immigrants to detain, according to an employee and photos of the operations shared with Reuters.
At the IRS, criminal investigation agents, who typically probe a variety of tax and financial crimes, were being redirected into the immigration operations, Reuters previously reported
IRS special agents are usually “out there following complex money trails; they break up drug deals, and they make people pay the taxes they owe,” said Elaine Maag, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a Washington think tank that studies tax issues. “There are direct and indirect costs to pulling IRS criminal investigators out of the field.”
The IRS did not respond to a request for comment.
PROSECUTION WORK PILING UP
On the second day of Trump’s administration, a top Justice Department official, Emil Bove, told federal prosecutors in a memo that they should “take all steps necessary” to prosecute illegal immigrants for crimes in the U.S.
In the memo, Bove called for increasing the number of immigration prosecutions, and said any cases that are declined must be urgently reported to the Justice Department.
As a result, federal prosecutors, who typically handle a variety of crimes, have been inundated with immigration cases, two of the sources said.
In San Diego, the number of people charged in federal court in February with felony immigration crimes more than quadrupled compared to the previous year, a Reuters examination of federal court records found. The number of people charged with felony drug crimes dropped slightly over the same period.
In Detroit – where immigration prosecutions have been rare – the number of people charged with immigration offenses rose from two in February 2024 to 19 last month, Reuters found.
Case management records from the Justice Department show that fewer than 1% of cases brought to prosecutors by the DEA and ATF over the past decade involved allegations that someone had violated an immigration law.
Since January, however, DEA agents have been ordered to reopen cases, involving arrests up to five years old, where prosecutors had declined to bring charges, two people involved in the work said.
Sometimes prosecutors rejected those cases because of problems with the evidence, they said. Now, if immigration authorities determine that the people were in the country illegally at the time of that case, agents are being dispatched to arrest them, the people said.
As Trump and billionaire Elon Musk slash the size of the federal bureaucracy, jobs that deal with immigration enforcement appear largely exempt.
In a January 31 email to ICE employees, a human resources official told them they wouldn’t be eligible for the retirement buyouts offered to some 2.3 million federal workers. “All ICE positions are excluded,” said the previously unreported email, shared with Reuters.
Joshua Schneyer and Mike Spector reported from New York. Additional reporting by John Shiffman, Ned Parker, Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson. Editing by Jason Szep
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U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order. It’s the first time the act has been used since World War II. The deportations also included two alleged leaders of the MS-13 gang, according to posts from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and from El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. A federal judge in D.C. on Saturday issued an emergency order that told the administration to stop using wartime powers to immediately deport people, and turn around any planes already in the air. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the timing of when the planes landed, or whether any migrants could be returned to the U.S., in response to the court’s order. The law requires an “invasion or predatory incursion” by a foreign nation or government to be considered a war, and can only be used against a foreign government or foreign nation in wartime or an invasion of that nation’s territory. It allows an expedited removal process, which means those subject to the president’s declaration would not go through the normal immigration proceedings in court.
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The Trump administration deported about 250 people who it says are members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang, to El Salvador this weekend, multiple members of the administration said on social media on Sunday.
It was not immediately clear if the deportations happened before or after a federal judge in D.C. on Saturday issued an emergency order that told the administration to stop using wartime powers to immediately deport people, and turn around any planes already in the air. Senior Justice Department officials in a filing on Sunday argued that the order came too late to stop the deportations, as planes were already outside U.S. territory.
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President Trump on Saturday issued a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua. The seldom-used law gives the president authority to detain or deport nationals of an enemy nation during wartime or invasion. It’s the first time the act has been used since World War II.
The deportations to El Salvador also included two alleged leaders of the MS-13 gang, which wasn’t included in Saturday’s action, and 21 other members of the gang, according to posts from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and from El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
MS-13 started in Los Angeles in the 1980s, but many of its members also operate in El Salvador and the Trump administration has also designated it as a foreign terrorist organization.
“Thanks to the great work of the Department of State, these heinous monsters were extracted and removed to El Salvador where they will no longer be able to pose any threat to the American People,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
“Ooopsie… too late,” Bukele posted, in response to a news headline about the judicial order.
With the migrants now in El Salvador, it’s unclear what jurisdiction U.S. courts have over them. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the timing of when the planes landed, or whether any migrants could be returned to the U.S. in response to the court’s order.
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Government lawyers on Sunday wrote that “some gang members subject to removal under the Proclamation had already been removed from United States territory” by the time of the judge’s order at 7:26 p.m. on Saturday, which sought to block immediate deportations. The court filing was signed by the top Justice Department leaders, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
The Alien Enemies Act allows an expedited removal process, which means those subject to the president’s declaration would not go through the normal immigration proceedings in court, or be able to claim asylum. The proclamation also leaves no time to contest the government’s claims that people are members of a criminal gang.
Wendy Ramos, a spokesperson for El Salvador’s presidency, told NPR that El Salvador didn’t have any details about the people deported, including whether they were convicted of a crime in the U.S.
The law requires an “invasion or predatory incursion”
Immigrant rights advocates fear that invoking the act would also open the door for targeting and deporting others, regardless of their status or criminal records.
The last time a president invoked the Alien Enemies Act was WWII, during which 31,000 suspected enemy aliens of mostly Japanese, Italian and German descent were placed in internment camps and military facilities. The law requires war to be formally declared, or any “invasion or predatory incursion” by a foreign nation or government.
The American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward in a lawsuit on Saturday sought to block the deportations of five Venezuelan men for 14 days, and later broadened the request to all people who could be deported under Trump’s “Alien Enemies Act” proclamation.
Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., agreed to block the deportations of the five men on Saturday. He later broadened the order to anyone covered by Trump’s proclamation. Another hearing in the case is set for March 21.
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The Trump administration has already appealed the judge’s rulings to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead counsel on the case, said the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act is illegal because it’s up to Congress to declare a state of war that allows detention of so-called “foreign aliens.”
“The Alien Enemies Act cannot be used during peace time for regular immigration enforcement,” Gelernt said. “Congress was very clear in the statute that it can only be used against a foreign government or foreign nation. It has never in our country’s history been used during peacetime, much less against a gang.”
Beyond the question of the president’s authority, Gelernt also questioned whether the hundreds deported to El Salvador were in fact gang members.
“These individuals did not get a hearing to show they’re not members of a gang,” Gelernt said.
El Salvador accepts deportees
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Bukele, El Salvador’s president, posted a video on Sunday of what he said was 238 members of Tren de Aragua arriving in El Salvador. He said they would be transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in the country, for a period of one year.
El Salvador’s government on Sunday shared dozens of photos showing men handcuffed and kneeling, surrounded by guards, after having their heads shaved.
El Salvador has used the CECOT “mega prison” to imprison alleged gang members as part of a broader crackdown that allows police to detain anyone they suspect of having gang affiliations, even without evidence.
Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, last month said El Salvador’s president had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality. Bukele’s social media posts on Sunday refer to “a very low fee” that the United States paid to El Salvador for the deportations.
“Thank you for your assistance and friendship, President Bukele,” Rubio said on social media on Sunday. El Salvador agreed to hold the people deported “in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars,” Rubio added.
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NPR’s Eyder Peralta and Danielle Kurtzleben contributed to this story.
Mike Johnson Quietly Moves to Block Democrats Investigating Trump
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is trying to prevent Democrats from opening up inquiries into the Trump administration. Johnson used his authority on Monday to advance a measure in the House Rules Committee that would prevent any votes on “resolutions of inquiry” Democrats are using one of those resolutions to demand answers from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about U.S. attacks on the Houthis in Yemen.
Johnson used his authority on Monday to advance a measure in the House Rules Committee that would prevent any votes on “resolutions of inquiry,” which would take away one of the few oversight tools that House Democrats have as the minority party in the chamber.
These types of resolutions are privileged, which push them to the top of the House agenda. If the majority party on a committee does not report a resolution of inquiry to the full House, the resolution can be brought to the floor without the speaker’s permission, forcing a vote.
At the moment, Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee are using one of those resolutions to demand answers from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about U.S. attacks on the Houthis in Yemen, and about how the Pentagon is handling classified and sensitive information. Hegseth’s use of private group chats on the Signal app to discuss U.S. airstrikes in Yemen have prompted House Democrats to push for more information.
Republicans, with Johnson’s backing, have responded by pausing resolutions of inquiry until September 30, hoping that questions about “Signalgate” (and any other oversight attempts) from the Democrats will die out. Republicans hid the pause inside another set of resolutions attacking former President Biden’s environmental policies.
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