DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin on Tuesday testified before the Senate on his department’s 2027 budget.

Tuesday’s hearing took place as GOP Senators hold up the reconciliation bill that funds ICE and border patrol over Trump’s weaponization fund.

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy opened the hearing by trashing the Department of Homeland Security.

“On 96 occasions, DHS was caught violating the law, was ordered to obey the law, and 96 times ignored the judge in one state. That is stunning, and it should be unacceptable to anyone on this committee who claims to care about the rule of law,” Chris Murphy said.

Murphy also asked Mullin if he would enforce court orders.

Mullin crushed Murphy:

“The outlandish claims you made there is just flat wrong. You start saying we’re breaking the law, and you really start looking at it, and we’re enforcing laws that Congress did pass. That’s reckless.”

“For you to throw my 275,000 employees underneath DHS, with a broad stroke like that, is reckless and irresponsible in your part!”

“We’re doing the job that Congress gave us the authority to do, and our men and women out there every single day is enforcing laws. If you don’t like the laws, you can change them!”

“When you throw out reckless terms, and you start referring to our agents as being ‘dangerous, unconstitutional, and lawless,’ That’s why our agents’ death threats are up by 8,000%!”

“Your political theater, that’s what it causes. When you start looking at assaults on our officers, they’re up by 1,300%. Senator Murphy, is that what you want?”

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