Things got very funny after President Trump managed to ram the Big, Beautiful Bill through Congress. Particularly, the massive expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding in the bill, raising ICE’s budget to about that of the US Marine Corps, got some Democrats very mad. Amongst those who freaked out was AOC, who had a total, Trump-induced meltdown once again.
As background, the BBB both cut taxes and funded border enforcement. While the tax cuts for Social Security recipients, wage workers receiving overtime pay, and hospitality workers receiving tips were most bandied about as the bill was promoted, its other main feature was dramatically expanding the border enforcement budget. It fully funds the wall, expands Border Patrol and ICE dramatically, and makes far more resources available for effecting deportations. Most notably, now, thanks to the bill’s passage and signing into law by President Trump, the ICE budget has gone up 20x to $145 billion.
Predictably, AOC went berserk over that and claimed that the bill funds ICE “disappearing” people like in the Soviet Union under Stalin. She proceeded to say, in the same hysteric post on Bluesky, that America needs to be ready for what Trump just did to expand ICE in the bill and that the newly expanded agency should be very frightening.
Beginning the ridiculous post, the woke “Squad” congresswoman claimed that what had happened with the budget reconciliation bill’s passage was more than a “budget increase” for ICE, saying, “I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase.”
She then claimed that really it was an “explosion” that will give ICE the opportunity to start “disappearing” people, claiming, “It is an explosion – making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.”
Adding to that in a second post, AOC claimed that “people are going to die” because the BBB passed and expanded ICE while cutting taxes. She said, absurdly, “I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.”
Still not done, she said that this Trump Administration is different from the first one because the “guardrails,” presumably meaning RINOs who would hold up his agenda for reasons of personal vanity, have gone away. She said, “I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.”
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She then reposted a similarly ridiculous, pearl-clutching post claiming, “Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It’s about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we’ve got.”
Watch Tom Homan explain why the ICE budget expansion was so important here: