Dem Sen. Murphy on Voting Against DHS Funds Hurting Disaster Relief: We Aren’t Trying to Reform All of DHS

On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) responded to arguments that voting against the DHS funding bill will delay money for things like disaster relief and the Coast Guard while letting ICE operate anyway by stating that “there’s nothing that would stop us from constraining the use of dollars that are both in the annual budget, but also the Big Beautiful Bill. And the fact of the matter is, we aren’t going to ask for the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security to be reformed.”

Co-host Michel Martin asked, [relevant exchange begins around 2:15] “[T]wo arguments that we’re hearing on the Democratic side against this — one is substantive, and one is political, let’s just take them separately. The first