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Around 2 to 3 a.m. on March 27, 2026, while most Americans were asleep, while the country assumed its elected officials were either negotiating in good faith or standing firm on principle, the United States Senate quietly slipped a knife into the process.
Five senators. That is all it took.
You, John Thune, the Majority Leader (R)
Eric Schmitt (R)
Bernie Moreno (R)
Mazie Hirono (D)
Andy Kim (R)
A skeleton crew. Designed for speed. For silence. For escape. And with that, by unanimous consent, by voice vote, with no roll call, no recorded accountability, no visible opposition, you passed a PARTIAL Department of Homeland Security funding bill.
No ICE funding. No CBP funding. At 3 a.m., with five people in the room, the United States Senate passed a bill that stripped funding from the very agencies responsible for immigration enforcement.
And you did it without forcing ANYONE to go on record. No names. No votes. No fingerprints. Just a quiet chorus of “aye” in a room so empty it practically echoed.
And then you slinked back into the night.
This is how power protects itself. With procedure. With timing. With the kind of technical maneuvering that sounds boring enough that most people will tune it out. But they should not tune this out. Not this time. Because buried inside this particular procedural maneuver is something far more revealing than any speech on the Senate floor.
It is SURRENDER.
I know what you’ll say...
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