Homeless freezing to death in New York City

Scalise blasts Mamdani as 18 New Yorkers freeze to death under socialist mayor's watch

Eighteen people are dead in New York City. They froze to death on the streets of the richest city in America while Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration deployed warming vehicles and urged the homeless to find shelter.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise didn't mince words on Tuesday. The Louisiana Republican tied the deaths directly to Mamdani's leadership — and used them to frame the stakes of a looming DHS funding fight that Democrats appear determined to sabotage.

Since Friday's press conference, one additional New Yorker lost their life on the streets of our city as a result of this cold snap. The total lives lost is now 18. Each life lost is a tragedy, and we will continue to hold their families in our thoughts.

Thoughts. Eighteen people are dead, and the mayor offered thoughts.

Democrats are playing a funding game with agencies that exist to keep Americans alive during emergencies.

The fight isn't actually about ICE, despite what Democratic messaging suggests. ICE is fully funded. It received an injection of billions of dollars from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" last year.

Democrats have taken issue with that funding specifically, but Scalise argued their obstruction of DHS funding goes well beyond immigration enforcement — it threatens the entire homeland security apparatus.

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