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Chuck Schumer Gets Put in His Place After Claiming Nobody Respects ICE or CBP

Dmitri Bolt
Dmitri Bolt  |  April 23, 2026 12:45 PM

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer came under fire Thursday after claiming on the Senate floor that nobody in the United States respects either Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as Congress has yet to fund either agency in a now 68-day partial government shutdown. 

Several Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin as well as President Trump himself, quickly blasted Sen. Schumer's remarks. The president even demanded that he apologize.

"Wow! Cryin’ Chuck Schumer just said, for the whole World to hear, that 'NOBODY RESPECTS BORDER PATROL OR ICE,'" the president wrote on Truth Social. "That is one of the most egregious, incorrect, unpatriotic, and dangerous statements I have EVER heard from a 'professional' politician. HE MUST IMMEDIATELY APOLOGIZE TO THESE GREAT PATRIOTS, AND I MEAN NOW! President DONALD J. TRUMP."

"Chuck Schumer, no one respects you," Secretary Mullin said in an interview with Fox News. "The definition of a lying scumbag politician, that is you. You would be the definition if you Googled you right now. I mean, why don't you just come out and be honest with American people? He wants to have open borders."

"If you want to defund the Customs and Border Protection Agency, if you want to defund ICE, who is in there arresting the criminals that the walls were passed by, you had time to change those during the Biden administration," he continued. "You didn't, because you're for open borders, and you're for the criminals running amok in our cities. And for you to say that is so disrespectful to the law enforcement that is out there protecting you, because he has a detail with him."

"How about he walks around these city streets without a detail?" he added. "I wonder how safe he would feel."

This comes shortly after Secretary Mullin revealed that emergency funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to run out by the end of the month, as Congress has failed to fully fund the law enforcement agencies central to President Trump’s immigration policy. 

The partial government shutdown was briefly mitigated after an executive order from President Trump allowed emergency funds to be used to pay DHS employees.