Congress Hosts Finger-Wagging Olympics As DHS Chief Reminds Democrats About 450,000 Missing Kids

Washington's latest episode of Political Theater Live featured enough finger pointing to qualify as an OSHA workplace hazard after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Rep. Rosa DeLauro turned a routine budget hearing into an audition for daytime television.

Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Mullin found himself on the receiving end of another well rehearsed Democratic outrage performance centered on family separation.

"3,900 children were separated from their families," DeLauro declared, delivering the line as though nobody had updated the script since 2019.

Mullin promptly reached into the file Democrats apparently keep locked in a basement.

"450,000 kids were lost during the Biden administration, and you didn’t say a word about it."

That was apparently the signal for the hearing to transition from congressional oversight into interpretive finger wagging.

"Mr. Secretary! Do not interrupt," DeLauro snapped, raising her voice as cameras happily captured every second.

"Don’t you point your finger at me," Mullin answered. "Don’t be a hypocrite."

Not to be outdone, DeLauro doubled down.

"I will point my finger at you," she fired back before asking the committee chairman to put Mullin "in his place."

Mullin wasn't interested in playing along.

"You should be as upset about the 450,000 kids that were lost. You didn’t say a word about it. For four years, you never said a word."

Then he delivered one final jab.

"You should be put in your place."

The Capitol Hill fireworks came just hours after the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration two major immigration victories, triggering what could only be described as a nationwide shortage of coping mechanisms on the Left.

In one 6 to 3 decision, the Court ruled the administration could move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian migrants and 6,000 Syrians currently living in the United States. In another 6 to 3 ruling, the justices upheld the federal government's authority to limit asylum processing at ports of entry through the "metering" policy, rejecting claims that every migrant who arrives at the border must immediately be processed.

Adding another twist, Florida officials announced that the now famous Everglades detention center nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" is closing its gates after helping deport roughly 21,000 illegal immigrants.

Standing beside White House Border Czar Tom Homan, Gov. Ron DeSantis explained that the facility had always been intended as a temporary emergency measure.

"I said from the beginning that this was an emergency solution that would be temporary, that once DHS had the wherewithal to be able to handle these illegal aliens, particularly the criminal illegal aliens, that they would be able to do so, and we would still help," DeSantis said. "In terms of us managing this facility, the minute that’s no longer needed, then we obviously would break down the facility."

In Washington, however, one thing remains permanent. As long as there are cameras rolling, there will always be another finger to point.

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