Johnson says Democrats’ pitch to fund DHS without ICE, CBP would ‘defund the police’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday dismissed a plan backed by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) to fund agencies within the Department of Homeland Security other than Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), dubbing it an effort to “defund the police.”  Jeffries on Monday launched a discharge petition effort to try…