On Thursday, Senate Republicans are set to block legislation intended to combat domestic terrorism. And they’re all over the place on whether homegrown extremism even needs more federal attention.
will hold a vote onthat would set up offices at the Justice Department, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to focus on domestic terrorism. The bill is expected to get few if any Republican votes, as the GOP widely views the legislation as unnecessary and an attempt by Democrats to politicize the killing of 10 people, mostly Black.
As Rubio laid out, Republicans have adopted a slippery-slope argument in response to the domestic terrorism bill, contending it could be misused based on ideology to go after political opponents of the party in power.
Thune added that, while Republicans and Democrats are having early conversations about a response to the Texas massacre, “there are a lot of people grieving.” “I mean, if we can’t find consensus on fighting white supremacists, what can we find consensus on?” he added. It’s a tough path ahead. When the Senate considered bipartisan background checks legislation in 2013 from Sens., only four Republicans — including Toomey — supported the bill. And of those four, Toomey and Sen., who previously served as Florida’s governor, signed gun-control legislation in the days following the 2018 massacre at a high school in his state.
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