C-SPAN
@CSPAN·1.8M subscribers·15.6K videos
Jeffries: GOP shut down DHS “instead of fixing the problem”
Posted
February 18, 2026
Views
55,376
Likes
2,742
Comments
1,034
Engagement
6.82%
February 18, 2026
55,376
2,742
1,034
6.82%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
1:45Now PlayingHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Wednesday called on Republicans to agree to "dramatic" reforms to immigration enforcement operations in order to move forward on a funding bill to reopen the Homeland Security Department.
"Republicans have decided they would rather shut down FEMA, shut down TSA, and shut down the Coast Guard than get ICE under control," he said at a press conference on the fifth day of the partial government shutdown.
The Democratic leader said the American people "know that ICE needs to be reined in," citing widespread concern over the agency's conduct — particularly amid recent immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota that sparked public outrage and multiple investigations into federal agents' actions.
"The American people are horrified by what they have seen, but instead of fixing the problem, which Democrats have given our Republican colleagues an opportunity to do, they've shut down crucial parts of the Department of Homeland Security," Rep. Jeffries said.
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
