“These are commonsense reforms. If Republicans refuse to support them, they are choosing chaos over order, plain and simple.”
- Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
The U.S. Constitution grants Congress a lot of power but makes few demands of them: One of them is to define, submit, and approve a Federal Budget or else Washington D.C. shuts down.
This detail isn’t lost on the Democrat Party, which during Trump’s second term has shut D.C. down by holding the Federal Budget hostage on two occasions unless their demands were met: For 34 days back in December 2018, after demanding Trump stop constructing the border wall, and for another 43 days in October 2025, after demanding Biden’s temporary healthcare premium subsidies be made permanent.
And now the Democrats threaten to shut down America’s ability to enforce National security by holding hostage any funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until their demands for Federal reform of ICE are met.
Minnesota’s Progressive Governor and 
Way back in February 2016 published “The 2016 MUSEman Presidential Platform”, which included 
In late 2025 President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched Operation Metro Surge, and on February 4, 2026, DHS announced they had arrested more than 4,000 illegal immigrants arrests of illegal aliens “
Early in my career, while working as an entry-level Mechanical Engineer performing preliminary designs for gas turbine engine axial compressors, one of my experience mentors taught me this important rule:
Seems when it comes to cooperating with Federal Law Enforcement Officers enforcing Federal Immigration Laws the word “INVASION” seems to be the label-de-jour by the Democrat-controlled State of Minnesota and some Liberal Media outlets reporting on actions by ICE to legally arrest illegal aliens:
