Whoops: Schumer Slips on ICE - Makes Hilarious Mistake While Railing About It

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) isn't in a good place right now.

He's ticked off the people in his party on the left who believe he has been ineffective and should retire. They likely will try to primary him, but that isn't coming until 2028. Meanwhile, they're fuming at him, and even if he wins, they may not re-elect him as leader.

On the other hand, he appears to be trying to appease the left by pulling bad moves like blocking funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) right as we are in the middle of a battle with Iran, when there have been multiple terrorist attacks. The funding shutdown has also caused hundreds of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents to quit, which has led to long lines and hours of waiting at some of the airports. President Donald Trump has now moved to deploy ICE to help out at the airports to relieve the pressure. Border Czar Tom Homan indicated that help was on the way.

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The problems are all on the Democrats for placing their political agenda and illegal aliens before the safety of the American people. It shows where their focus truly is. They want to blame it on the Republicans, but it's the Democrats who aren't willing to fund all of DHS.

Schumer knows he's in an untenable box, and I think he's starting to feel it. He's trying to argue to split off bills for funding for the TSA, but that still doesn't deal with all the other important agencies, even if they were to leave out ICE. Then, Elon Musk offered to pay for the TSA agents, so perhaps that threw Schumer off as well, if he is not able to use the TSA as a hostage for the Democratic agenda. Then, too, Trump is sending ICE in to help solve the long lines in the airports, so that issue may go away, too.

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Chuck Schumer showed the pressure during a truly funny moment on the floor when he was trying to make his argument, but messed it up, and actually said they needed to "fund ICE."

🚨 LMAO! Schumer is SO RATTLED by Elon Musk’s offer to pay TSA salaries that he accidentally called for more ICE FUNDING on the Senate floor

“We must fund ICE — we must fund TSA now!”

I agree, Chuck! Fund ICE! 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/DfxfpBQeJ8
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 21, 2026

"We must fund ICE..." Schumer said before he stopped himself. "We must fund TSA right now!” That's hilarious.

Okay, Chuck, we agree, fund ICE. And it looks like President Donald Trump agrees as well.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 22, 2026

There's only one way out of this — that's to fund all the DHS. So whether Schumer caves now or later, he's still going to have to cave, just like he has in the past. And it won't matter — whatever he does, he's not going to convince the left to vote for him, no matter what. They've already passed him by.

He should have some humility and just retire. But he should do the right thing here for the American people and fund DHS first.

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