#democratic-politics

#democratic-politics

Early Saturday morning, it appeared as if enough Senate Democrats were willing to fund the Department of Homeland Security and its deportation machine, if that's what it took to keep the rest of the government open. How quickly things change. The House had passed funding for the DHS late last week, with seven centrist Democrats joining nearly all Republicans to get it over the line. The Senate was to take it up this week alongside a handful of other funding bills.

But they've certainly got Democratic operatives and consultants talking even as Padilla and his camp remain loudly mum on the possibility. The focus for California's senior senator, said Padilla spokesperson Edgar Rodriguez when asked about the gubernatorial rumors on Wednesday, remains on California's upcoming special election on redistricting. That's been the party line in the past few weeks, since the rumor mill really started churning, and what Padilla himself has said in recent interviews.

It's the members of Congress, councilpeople in New York calling for Mamdani to be deported now. This is very dangerous, and my concern is the anti-Muslim bigotry.

Fetterman, according to reports, is driving dangerously and failing to take prescribed medication after a stroke while proposing extreme military actions that alarm his party.