Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as a “lying scumbag politician” after Schumer’s dismissive comments about the agency.
“Chuck Schumer, no one respects you,” Mullin said Thursday on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom.
Schumer spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday to condemn funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection without reforms.
“Adding $140 billion to an agency, to two groups, Border Patrol and ICE, that nobody respects in this country,” Schumer said.
“It makes my ears red,” Mullin responded. “The definition of a lying scumbag politician, that is you. You would be the definition if you Googled you right now.”
Mullin said Schumer should be honest with the American people and say that he is pro-open borders if he’s attacking the funding.
“You’re for the criminals running amok in our cities,” Mullin said, adding that Schumer’s comments are disrespectful to law enforcement officers who protect Americans.
The Department of Homeland Security has been without funding since Feb. 14 due to a partial government shutdown, the longest in history.
President Donald Trump has since issued an emergency order to pay DHS employees, but Mullin said funding is running out, and employees’ last check will be in early May.
“We’re at critical mass, and Democrats continue to play political theater,” Mullin said.
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The Senate passed a budget resolution early Thursday, which now moves to the House of Representatives.
Trump set a June 1 deadline for Congress to pass the final funding bill.