[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 3, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H1969]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                           NO FUNDING FOR DHS

  (Ms. McCOLLUM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I voted today not to continue funding for 
the Department of Homeland Security without real oversight and 
constraints on ICE and Border Patrol.
  Minnesotans are being racially profiled on a mass scale, assaulted on 
their streets, and kidnapped from their homes. Peaceful demonstrators 
are being threatened and detained for exercising their First Amendment 
rights. Two American citizens were killed on our streets by Department 
of Homeland Security agents.
  This is not the America that we learned about in civics class. This 
is the behavior of a dictatorship. We live in a democracy, where even 
the President must follow the rule of law and the Constitution.
  My vote against the funding today for DHS was to stand in solidarity 
with Minnesotans to demand changes that will protect our democracy. We 
are one Minnesota. We will continue to care for our neighbors and to 
stand up for our rights because they are your rights, too.

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