‘I’m Not Giving ICE Another Dime’: Schiff Says Republicans Who Vote To Give ICE More Funding Will ‘See More Americans Die’ | EUROtoday

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Ca.) declared Sunday he’s “not giving ICE or Border Patrol another dime given how these agencies are operating” as lethal sweeping Immigration and Custom Enforcement raids led by the Trump administration have sparked political and public backlash.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Schiff made the assertion after moderator Kristen Welker requested him if he’s “prepared to vote against Department of Homeland Security funding if it means partially shutting down the government, again, coming on the heels of an incredibly long shutdown.”

Telling Welker straight up that “Democrats are not going to fund that,” he continued, “The government will shut down if Republicans insist that that be joined with other government funding. It will be a Republican decision. They understand we’re not going to go along with this.”

The California senator famous Democrats are hoping “some of the Republicans in the Senate may see those scenes in the streets and be as repelled as we are, and vote against that continuation of violence also.”

He added: “If they don’t, it will be their decision whether they couple that funding for these ICE agents and Border Patrol agents with all these other government agencies.”

“[Republicans] will make the decision. They’re in the majority if they want to shut down the government so they can perpetuate this violence,” Schiff stated.

Schiff went on to vow he’s “not going to be a part of it.”

“And I think anyone who votes to give them more money to do this will share in the responsibility and see more Americans die in our cities as a result.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Welker requested Schiff what the “exact impact” could be if legislators withhold funding now, contemplating “Republicans have already passed $170 billion in extra DHS funding through what they’ve dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill.”

“Well, it would certainly, I hope, stop it from becoming even worse,” he responded. “They have thrown so much money at these agencies. They don’t know what to do with it. And there is no question that when we actually get a chance to do oversight again, which I hope will happen after this November, you are going to find all kinds of corruption [with] how that money is going out.”

Schiff then instructed Welker he believes they’ll discover that the cash has been “wasted hand over fist.”

“There is going to be enormous waste, fraud and abuse in DHS given how money is being spent without any kind of real oversight,” he stated.

Watch Schiff’s interview on “Meet the Press” beneath.