The time Trump would have had to spend on that would have limited the harm he will be able to do, it is up to all of us to resist this fascist crap at every step and the Biden administration routinely failed us in that regard

Yeah, this should have been obvious back when Biden was fighting to increase their budget (archived)

e; Also, the fact that it took some independent journalists to uncover this and none of the thousands of different investigators at different agencies that interact with or oversee ICE that my federal tax dollars pay for is a disgrace. This person should and could have been fired a long time ago.

Unfortunately that’s been the case for a while (archived)

Pretending they care is step one of doing something, step two is blaming liberal bureaucrats for the problem, step three is pretending they solved the problem or repeating step two depending on whether the constituent phone call is happy or angry

“I’m trying to figure out what leverage we actually have,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at a press briefing this month.

It is wild to see him just stand up there and admit he’s got no ideas for how to deal with this situation that he’s known was coming since November (and should have known was coming since the convention over the summer). Like, even if he believes there’s literally nothing he can do, just straight up admitting he’s useless and implicitly telling everyone to look somewhere else for resistance is an awful way to rally out supporters and keep people engaged, which is exactly what we need to be doing right now.

We’ve got more important things to tell people right now about things Congress and the White House are going to be attempting soon, but eventually we also really need to be connecting with Jeffries’ voters and making sure they understand that this blank check for Republicans is what they voted for when they supported him in primary votes and helping them understand that the country really can’t afford this kind of lazy incompetence right now.

I don’t think it’s technically called a filibuster in that circumstance, but, yeah, there were things they could have done to slow those votes down but didn’t (archived)