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First Ilhan Omar Now Ocasio-Cortez Makes A Call For Defunding Critical Portion Of U.S. Government

In February congressman Ilhan Omar contradicted herself in two tweets and called for defunding e Department of homeland security.

But before she did that she raged against the fact that some TSA workers did not yet receive their paychecks from the government shutdown.

Interesting because the Transportation Security Administration is a division of the DHS which, if she has her way, would not be funded.

“This is an outrage. I’m hearing from TSA workers back in Minnesota who STILL haven’t received backpay after the shutdown.

“All workers affected by the shutdown—including contractors—deserve backpay!” she said.


But then around an hour later she called for their agency to be defunded.

“When Democrats stood our ground last month, we proved that Individual 1 does not have the public support to ram his hateful wall through Congress.

“Let’s stand firm: #Not1Dollar for DHS,” she said in her tweet that followed her outrage over the TSA not being paid.


It is curious that any Congressperson would call to defund the agency that keeps Americans protected from terrorism.

But today we had another radical call for defunding a critical portion of our government from Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez made the comment while discussing her past calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with David Remnick.

“ICE is not under DOJ, it’s under the Department of Homeland Security and so we have now —” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Would you get rid of Homeland Security too?” Remnick asked.

“I think so,” Ocasio-Cortez responded. “I think so.”

Ocasio-Cortez called the creation of DHS an “egregious mistake” by the Bush administration.

DHS was created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans, and is designed to help prevent attacks and deal with threats against the United States.

These young Democrats are just too radical to be politicians in our country!

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