Scalise: Democrats are Siding with Illegal Immigrants Over the American People

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Newsmax's Wake Up Americato discuss TSA agents struggling to make ends meet as Democrats vote to withhold their paychecks and keep the Department of Homeland Security shut down to appease their radical base.

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Highlights from Leader Scalise's interview:

On the radical direction of the Democrat party:

"You're seeing Democrats that just want chaos to appease the radical base, the Mamdani wing of their party. That's who's driving the Democratic Party today.It's not your father's Democrat Party where you can just reason and, you know, Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan working things out. They hate Donald Trump and they want chaos. They don't care if it affects people adversely. You see it. They know that families are waiting 4 hours at airports, missing flights, you know, not being able to make vacations or funerals or weddings. They don't care. And we're going to have a vote today on the House floor. You're going to see the vote. And look, it's a very straightforward vote. Do you want to fund the Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Coast Guard, all of that, yes or no? It's two buttons, yes or no. And you'll see Republicans voting yes. And you're going to see Democrats voting no to make people go to work. 100,000 of these agents having to go to work without getting paid because Democrats are voting no."

On Democrats voting for chaos and lawlessness:

"You know, we're going to continue to give more opportunities. The vote you're going to see today is going to be the eighth time that Congress will be voting to fund this department. And eight times Democrats keep voting no.When will they take yes for an answer? I mean, look at all the changes President Trump has made to the Department of Homeland Security. We have a new secretary now, Markwayne Mullin, who's going to do a great job. He's over there. Tom Homan's come in, made major reforms. You know, you're seeing lots of changes in how enforcement's working.

"But oh, by the way, the murderers are still out there, as we saw in Chicago, another horrible death, young, beautiful girl shot down by an illegal who Joe Biden and Democrats let in. And Democrats are voting to keep those borders open and let more murderers into our country. This is a major fight that America needs to understand. You know, Republicans are fighting for law and order. Democrats want to defund the police. They want lawlessness. They want open borders. And they're defending the criminals who come here illegally and harm Americans.It's insane. I can't explain it. I don't know if you can. It makes no sense. But these people are crazy, as Donald Trump said at the State of the Union."

On TSA agents struggling to make ends meet because of Democrats' political games:

"[The TSA Deputy Administrator] also testified that TSA agents are sleeping in their cars because they can't pay rent. So imagine, you know, you talked about all the checks that they've missed... they've gone 49% of this fiscal year without a paycheck because Democrats cruelly voting to deny them pay while they're doing this important job to keep our country safe. Whose side are these Democrats on, by the way, when they would rather side with violent criminal illegals over Americans who want to be safeand TSA agents who are just doing a job to let you go to an airport and get on a plane and not have to worry that a terrorist was going to get on that plane with some kind of bomb-making device. I mean, this is a pre-September 11th mentality that Democrats have right now. And it's the votes, you can see it's a very transparent vote. You can go look at it. Call my office if you want to see the vote today and get a list of who voted yes and who voted no to keep defunding the police and defunding our TSA agents, who are barely making it. They've got rent due, they've got to try to eat. I mean, there's food shelters, setting up food shelters for TSA agents at airports. Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for voting no today."