Schumer and Jeffries Refuse to Back Growing Democratic Calls to Defund ICE

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123. 'defund' is a word that you likely won't see anywhere in any messaging from the leadership

...let's see what approach they come up with and discuss that.

There's absolutely no support for ICE from the people who already voted against the funding. Let's see what impact the Murphy, AOC and others in their respective caucuses have on the majority of members.

I'm thinking it will make little sense to have messaging divided between one faction or the other, so let's see how they reconcile any differences (if there are any) and see what kind of unified approach they come up with after meeting, if at all.

Absent any such consensus on messaging, I would expect the leaders to emerge with their own views on how to proceed and tell us who or what the obstacles are.

Remember, these two didn't elect themselves leader. They're also likely to be more progressively inclined than the membership as a whole, so you have to think they already hold the view of the majority of the membership.

If we're going to have an internal debate about this, I;d rather it occur in caucus than in the press, and I suspect that's most of the reason neither leader is taking the same definitive stand of the handful that the press claims is emerging with something contrary.

I'd wait and see before claiming there's a speck of daylight between them. And I'd wait a bit before expecting these two to go all maverick. We don't even know where the party stands on this, just this sophistry about some supposed resistance in the party and the prevarication about what the leaders 'refuse' to do.