Bill Kristol has had a change of heart. He is now opposed to the president sending alleged foreign enemies to rot in overseas prisons, and the claims of expansive executive powers and sprawling homeland security bureaucracy that enables him to do so.
"DHS [the Department of Homeland Security], it should all be defunded," Kristol said on a recent episode of The Bulwark Podcast, per Mediaite. "I've sorta come around to defunding ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] about a month or two ago. But now I'm just on the defund DHS thing."
In a follow-up social media post, he reiterated the need to dismantle DHS and return to the pre-2002 status quo, where its various component agencies—which include ICE—are run out of other departments.
