U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) believes there are many examples of how the Democratic Party has been co-opted by the radical left in America.
The senator has grown impatient with her colleagues on the other side of the aisle for being so unwilling to make a deal and fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
DHS is the lone major agency that was not funded by Congress when they enacted the full-year FY2026 spending for most of the rest of government.
“Look, this is just completely unnecessary and unfortunate in so many ways,” Britt said Sunday on Fox News. “We have men and women who have stepped up to serve our Department of Homeland Security. We’re seeing TSA right there, and they’re not getting a paycheck. It’s unacceptable. We want our Democratic colleagues to sit down with us and find a pathway forward…The first time they sat down with us was on Thursday.”
Britt thinks the base of the Democratic Party has just gone too far to the left on most issues.
“[W]hen I’m looking at what the Democratic Party has become, it is literally that the far left has taken over, is in the driver’s seat of the Democratic Party,” she argued. “We’re seeing that with them paying for protesters in a number of places, but also with the rhetoric that’s created and kind of stirring that up, calling ICE officers Nazis and Gestapo.”
“I mean, really, what we have to do is go back to making sure we’re standing shoulder to shoulder with our law enforcement officers,” she continued. “That we are abiding by the law, enforcing the law, that we know that the way you do it matters, that we’re going to do it the right way, but we’re we’re not going to vilify this.”
Britt has also been pushing the No Shutdown Paychecks to Politicians Act, which would ensure that members of Congress do not receive a paycheck during a government shutdown.
“I believe if Congress wasn’t getting a paycheck right now, that they would be much more eager to find a solution about this,” she said. “And I believe John Kennedy has a bill, and it says that if we don’t do our job, and that if people aren’t getting paid in the government that have stepped up to serve the United States government, then Congress shouldn’t get a paycheck either.”
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