The Democratic National Committee (DNC) usually makes headlines these days for being dead broke after Kamala Harris bled them dry during her 2024 presidential run. Ever since then, they’ve been doing nutty things like leveraging their Washington, D.C., headquarters building to pay their bills and keep their heads above water.
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As their money woes increase under the hapless leadership of DNC Chair Ken Martin, the party has grown reckless in its embrace of the far-left activists increasingly calling the shots. The party that couldn’t face putting out an autopsy of its 2024 electoral failures is basically inviting a not-so-hostile takeover by the socialists.
This was made abundantly clear Saturday as the DNC met for its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, to work through various business items and determine the party policy positions as the November midterms inch closer.
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One of the things the DNC was voting on was whether or not to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after their side took a few losses due their inability to follow lawful commands. The “abolish ICE” sentiment has been brewing ever since President Trump first got into office and strengthened the country’s immigration policies.
On Saturday, the DNC voted to approve a nonbinding resolution urging congressional Democrats to craft legislation abolishing ICE. Here’s some of the wording from the resolution:
“The DNC urges Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people.”
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(In the true split-personality style of the DNC, they also voted to reform ICE. Someone please make it make sense.)
And here’s a bit of the debate ahead of the vote, as reported by the @RNCResearch account on X:
- Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna slanders law enforcement as “cruel and rogue” and calls to abolish ICE. Khanna cares more about criminal illegal aliens than he does about Americans.
- Far-Left Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett thinks embracing policies like abolishing the police, prisons, and borders are a “path to victory.”
- Far-Left Democrat Rep. Analilia Mejia thinks abolishing police, prisons, and borders is “an indicator of the vibrancy and wellness of our Democratic party.”
Martin is taking the “have his cake and eat to” approach with this post-vote comment: “Clearly, the one thing that unites Democrats, regardless of their position on reform versus abolish or whatever other ways to change what’s happening, is people believe that what ICE is doing right now — and CBP and the federal government — should stop. There has to be a better way.”
Immediately following the vote, the Republican National Committee (RNC) released a statement excoriating the DNC for making the Abolish ICE movement “a key pillar of their party’s platform.” Here’s RNC Chairman Joe Gruters:
“Democrats made it official: they care more about protecting violent illegal aliens than American families. While President Trump and Republicans are securing our border and standing with law enforcement, Democrats want to let dangerous illegal criminals run wild in our communities. This resolution is political suicide, and Democrats will pay for choosing open borders over public safety, border security, and backing the blue.”
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The RNC released a statement criticizing the resolution to abolish ICE https://t.co/eIEZrxFKFZ pic.twitter.com/Bd1IQdXIHv
— Alex J. Rouhandeh (@AlexRouhandeh) August 15, 2026
Gruters may be onto something with that “political suicide” part. The DNC can try to split the difference by voting to both reform ICE and abolish it, but its growing socialist wing keeps forcing these ideas that once seemed fringe right into the party mainstream anyway.
At some point, Democrats will have to admit what the rest of us already know: the DSA is here and it’s not going anywhere.
Editor’s Note: Democrats are fanning the flames and raising the rhetoric by comparing ICE to the Gestapo, fascists, and secret police.
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