Focused on his SAVE act

As the crash at LaGuardia International Airport that killed two Air Canada pilots caused further flight delays in the New York metro region Monday, Trump proceeded to escalate the showdown in two ways: First, he announced that he would send ICE agents to airports to full in for unpaid TSA agents who have been calling out sick in droves.

Initially, Republicans seemed gleeful at the slap at Democrats.

“I think it’s justice,” Texas Sen.

John Cornyn told The Independent .

“Democrats don’t like ICE.

So they got more ICE.”
Cornyn is facing a bruising primary against Attorney General Ken Paxton .

He needs Trump’s endorsement for the win.

Many Republicans just hope and pray that Trump will endorse Cornyn so the GOP does not have to spend millions to prop Paxton and all his baggage up against Democratic primary winner James Talarico.

That aside, videos have already made the rounds of people struggling against ICE agents at airports .

ICE’s popularity is already far underwater in the United States, and these headlines will certainly hurt its popularity.

That led Trump to tell Republicans, “Kill the Filibuster, and stay in D.C.

for Easter, if necessary.”
In response, Senate Majority Leader John Thune seemed perturbed on Monday.

“Today is kind of a day where we're sorting some things out, but hopefully as the week wears on, we'll find a path forward to get this done,” Thune told The Independent .

“They don't want to have TSA held hostage because Trump tried to push this insane bill about supposed voter fraud,” Kim told The Independent .

Kim also pushed back on the idea of using ICE officials in airports.

“It's absolutely ridiculous that he's he's tried to push this and again, holding Americans at the airport hostage for this and preventing us from being able to come up with real fixes,” he said.

But Trump’s jamming the calendar might be making matters worse for himself.

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