MAGA lawmakers and loyalists fumed Wednesday after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) caved in a standoff to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Johnson sided with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) in a joint statement, signaling that the partial government shutdown could be over, and agreeing to pass the bipartisan Senate funding bill that reopens the agency without Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol funding.
On social media, plenty of MAGA devotees pushed back on the news. And some weren’t convinced that the move would happen.
“Let’s make this simple: caving to Democrats and not paying CBP and ICE is agreeing to defund Law Enforcement and leaving our borders wide open again. If that’s the vote, I’m a NO,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) wrote on X.
“Funding for ICE and CBP must never be separated from DHS funding. If Republicans isolate it, they’re handing our border and ICE agents straight to the radicals who will defund and dismantle them every chance they get. Fund DHS fully, or the open borders globalists win,” Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) wrote on X.
“NO! Thune will f* it up. Pass the Save American Act and nuke the filibuster,” user Chiron, who shares pro-Trump and anti-vaccine content, wrote on X.
