Top Democrat on House homeland security committee calls for Kristi Noem to resign as protester interrupts meeting – US politics live

Heckler shouts ‘end the deportations’ as Mississippi congressman Bennie Thompson says, under Noem’s direction, DHS has ‘detained Americans’Chris Van Hollen, the Democratic senator from Maryland, was among the lawmakers speaking out against the Trump administration and its actions around Venezuela, taking to the senate floor on Wednesday to call on Congress to block Donald Trump from “using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war”.“Last time I checked, the constitution of the United States gives Congress – this body – the power to decide questions of war or peace,” he said. Continue reading...