In an amazing exchange yesterday, Tom Homan clashed with Democratic chairwoman Jayapal after he called her and other Democrats out for their epic hypocrisy over the border:
I love how Homan doesn’t mince words and isn’t afraid to tell the truth. Democrats must hate to see Republicans bring him as a witness before their committees.
Here’s more from the Daily Wire:
During the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on immigrant detention facilities, Jayapal criticized the Trump administration for skirting Congressional authority and financing agency operations with millions of dollars that were initially slated for other functions.
“I’d like to remind you that under the Obama administration we did that most of the years he was president. We moved money around [the Department of Homeland Security] — it’s called reprogramming,” Homan responded. “We did that under the Obama administration and I don’t remember any hearings on that.”
Homan also fired back over Democrats’ seeming outrage regarding family separation. During the Obama administration, the federal courts ruled that the government is prohibited from detaining children for longer than 20 days. Since the 20-day window is generally not long enough to process the detained families, children and their accompanying adults are consequently separated as not to violate what is referred to as the Flores Settlement Agreement. However, Democrats have been lambasting Trump for residing over policies that keep children in cages.
“You are quick to point out the cages that were built under the Obama administration. I was there. Family detention — we had 100 family beds under the Obama administration and we built 3,000 more,” Homan said. “When there was a surge in [2014 and 2015], Congress was quick to give all the money we needed to build detention facilities, get transportation contracts. We reprogrammed money out of the majority of the years he was president — that was fine.”
“If this is about transparency, let’s be factual about it,” he added.
Jayapal, who serves as the subcommittee’s chairwoman, tried to defend her position by stating that she was never in favor of those policies, even while Obama was in office. She subsequently cut off Homan’s time.
“Be honest with the American people. You can’t point out faults in the Trump administration when it happened under the Obama administration,” he interjected. “That’s dishonesty. It’s pathetic and it’s sad.”
Homan is exactly right. It’s very dishonest and shameful. But Democrats have no shame and don’t care if they look like hypocrites. The goal is getting Trump out of office and nothing will standing in their way of trying to make that happen.