Even the propaganda masters over at CNN are starting to realize that the Radical Left’s war on border security is a losing battle.
CNN’s Brianna Keilar actually did something resembling journalism, cornering the disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) over the Democrats’ shameful obstruction of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding.
As The Gateway Pundit has been reporting for weeks, radical Democrats in the Senate and House have been holding the entire Department of Homeland Security hostage, refusing to pass a clean funding bill that fully supports ICE and CBP while the partial shutdown drags on.
Keilar pressed Swalwell on a basic and devastating question: if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) already has sufficient funding to continue operations, then what exactly are Democrats accomplishing by blocking full DHS funding?
Clearly caught off guard by receiving a real question from a friendly network, Swalwell resorted to the most deranged rhetoric we’ve heard since the J6 committee disbanded.
The man who was famously compromised by a Chinese spy (Fang Fang) claimed that funding ICE and CBP is “essentially sanctioning or signing off on more public executions.”
Brianna Keilar:
House Republicans want DHS fully funded, including ICE. Democrats want to fund DHS minus ICE and some CBP. Realistically, though, ICE does have enough money to operate through the end of Trump’s term already, even without that funding the Democrats object to. What are you gaining as a party, uh, for the American people, if ICE is still going to be funded to operate either way here?
Eric Swalwell:
Well, the White House, by funding ICE and CBP, is essentially sanctioning or signing off on more public executions. You know, we saw what happened with a nurse named Preeti and a mom named Good, and I’m not going to co-sign on that. And I’m with 100 members of the Senate—Republicans and Democrats—who voted to fund every part of Homeland Security, including TSA, but not give more money to CBP or ICE.
That’s what Speaker Johnson should have done. I should be sitting in Washington voting on this right now, but instead Speaker Johnson sent Republicans home. And it doesn’t even make sense—he can’t even be on the same page with the Senate Republican leader, who recognizes it’s absurd to have millions of Americans wait in line at airports when the solution was passed 100 years ago.
Brianna Keilar:
Do you disagree with what I laid out there—that ICE has enough money, that there is enough money without the money that Democrats are objecting to? Because what are—what—
Eric Swalwell:
That’s why I don’t want more money.
Brianna Keilar:
But if they have enough, then how is it not just symbolic? Because at this point, you have a lot of people who are paying the price, right? A lot of attention has been paid to TSA—they, of course, are now getting paid because of the executive order. But it’s not just them, right? Civilians in the Coast Guard—they are going without, many of them in California. How long should they be prepared to work without a paycheck?
Eric Swalwell (00:01:57.08):
It’s not symbolic to a 6-year-old boy named Joseph in my district. A couple weeks ago, he and his family were arrested and deported, and he’s deaf, and he goes to a school for the deaf. ICE wouldn’t even allow him to take his assistive hearing devices with him. They sent him to Colombia within days.
My staff flew to Colombia and took the assistive living devices. So for Californians, you know, this is anything but symbolic—it’s real, it’s present. And I cannot sanction what they’re doing, co-sign on what they’re doing, or even symbolically give them more support, because these are people scared for their lives.
And the solution was right in front of us: do what the Senate did—don’t give them any more money, but fund everyone else like TSA. We can do that right now in the House of Representatives. Speaker Johnson should.
Brianna Keilar:
And how long do you think folks should expect this shutdown to continue?
Eric Swalwell:
It can end right now. You know, Brianna—and the president, if he says he’s paying TSA, who the hell knows? He doesn’t even seem to believe in Congress anymore. He’s in defiance of the Republican leader in the Senate.
Brianna Keilar:
Let me rephrase it: how long are Democrats prepared—how long are Democrats prepared to hold the line on where they are if there isn’t a change from Republicans?
Eric Swalwell:
I will continue to support paying TSA. I cannot support more public executions or deporting more little children like the 6-year-old in my district who was sent without his hearing devices to Colombia. I’m not in for that, and most Americans aren’t either.
WATCH:
This seems to be happening more and more on CNN.
Anchor Brianna Keilar eventually SNAPS at Rep. Eric Swalwell after putting him in the HOT SEAT for more than three minutes — pressing him on WHY Democrats are refusing to pay DHS.
Swalwell repeatedly tried to dodge the question,… pic.twitter.com/J78MaMNcwn
— Overton (@overton_news) March 30, 2026
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