{"id":1183,"date":"2026-02-24T05:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/thugs-the-moderate-democrat-railing-against-ice\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:20:54","slug":"thugs-the-moderate-democrat-railing-against-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/thugs-the-moderate-democrat-railing-against-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thugs\u2019: The Moderate Democrat Railing Against ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is nobody\u2019s idea of a partisan firebrand. She\u2019s a moderate, swing-state Democrat with a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 steeped in law enforcement \u2014 all of which makes her an unlikely leader of the Democratic-led shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which has now entered its sixth day.<\/p>\n

But over the past few months, Senator Cortez Masto said she was horrified by the conduct of federal immigration enforcement agents in her own state and across the country. By last week, she and many of her Democratic colleagues in the Senate decided to act on their outrage.<\/p>\n

In an interview with her on \u201cThe Daily,\u201d Senator Cortez Masto talks about why she decided to support withholding homeland security funding, the political perils for her party in blocking that funding and why she believes most Americans support the strategy.<\/p>\n

Guest: Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada<\/p>\n

Background reading:\u00a0<\/p>\n