MS NOW reporter Jake Sherman said Republicans in Washington, DC. appear to be sharpening their knives for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
“It depends how hard the administration fights for her. I've talked to Republicans over the last couple days who think she's completely out of her depth, and she needs to go, and she's emblematic of the problem,” Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman said in a Tuesday segment. “An impeachment resolution has privilege in the House of Representatives, meaning [minority party] Democrats can bring it up. This is not something that needs to go through [Speaker] Mike Johnson. Democrats can bring up an impeachment resolution without the Republican leadership so they could force this vote effectively without Republican cooperation.”
Sherman added that the resulting vote would “put a lot of Republicans in a tough spot.”
“She's got big problems up here, … and I think the administration understands that,” said Sherman. “But at the same time, getting rid of Kristi Noem … is not going to be the answer to the administration's problems.”
Sherman acknowledged that the fallout of two shooting deaths in Minneapolis at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has forced the administration of President Donald Trump to make operational changes, like getting rid of U.S. Border Patrol commander at-large Greg Bovino and putting immigration adviser Tom Homan in charge of the administration's operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But replacing Bovino with Homan – who is under investigation for taking $50,000 from agents in a sting operation before Trump shut down the case — is not enough for Democrats.
“What Democrats are seeking now … is not cosmetic changes or executive orders. They want statutory limitations on what ICE can do in the interior of the United States,” said Sherman. “And without that, I … I do believe there's going to be a government shutdown.”
Further complicating the matter is if Trump does manage to get a budget agreement from the Senate, House Democrats my stall it without further ICE restraints.
“It's going to be nearly impossible to get through the house of representatives, so they're in a real, real crisis that I don't think a lot of people have fully internalized yet,” Sherman said.
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