Tim Walz THREATENED Trump on ICE War, Then This HAPPENED!!!

What happens to a state when the President of the United States yanks all federal funding over immigration policy and the governor can't stop it? Well, right now, President Donald J. Trump has just announced that starting February 1st, 2026, Minnesota will see federal payments cut off entirely. Starting February 1st, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens. And it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities. Because in his words, its sanctuary policies are enabling crime and fraud and defying federal law. This is not about abstract policies. This is a financial earthquake that is hitting schools, transit, health programs. This is money that flows from Washington, D.C. directly into Minnesota's communities. And the man in the crosshairs, Governor Tim Walz, whose leadership is being blamed for every crisis and every protest that's erupting in the Twin Cities. Absolutely. I think that this is a distraction for him. We're not going to let that happen. We're going to continue to talk about the fraud and the stealing from the American taxpayers that he has allowed to have happen in Minneapolis. It is the largest fraudulent scheme in American history, we believe. It's in Minnesota. We're going to get to the bottom of it and bring people to justice, even the elected officials that allowed it to happen. Tim, when was the last time you called the governor? Governor Walz. Oh, I talked to him just a couple of days ago. And what did he say when you told him to chill out? I said, Tim and I served together in Congress. We both ran for governor at the same time. We have very different ways of governing. Our state in South Dakota was extremely successful and grew economically and safety. His, he drove it into the ditch. And it has been an absolute disaster. He let it burn down in 2020 and then asked surrounding governors to send our National Guard to help him because he waited too long to make any decisions to bring peace. I'm, I'm worried that he's doing the same thing. I understand that history, but when you approached him on the phone and made your appeal, what did he say? I said, sir, listen, Tim, you know the situation, what's going on. We are enforcing federal law. If you don't like the laws, go change them. But, but don't do it by giving place to these protesters and rioters that are perpetuating violence. And I said, you have my personal cell phone. You call me if you need me, you call me. We will be there to help back you up, but protect your city, protect your state. And he paused for a few seconds and he just said, yeah, okay. I, we have very different viewpoints of what's going on. I said, maybe we do, but we will be here if you need us, because that's our goal every day is to keep people safe. So yesterday he's encouraging people to keep a record on video with their phone. All right, here's part of that now. Listen, you are not powerless. Three illegal aliens trying to kill an ICE agent in the street, and we're worried about interactions like this. This is outrageous. The state of Minnesota is in a state of insurrection right now. The governor is egging it on. The mayor is egging it on. If they want it to stop, cooperate with the federal government like states and cities are doing all over this country. Clear. Look, I don't know. I don't think any governor in history has had to fight a war against the federal government. But there's more. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey is under investigation under federal spotlight too. And we're in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street, to stand by their neighbors. We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another. Why are we put in this position? We're put in this position because we have approximately 600 police officers in Minneapolis, far fewer that are able to work at any given time. And there are approximately 3,000 ICE agents in the area. 3,000 every single day. Well, I said this yesterday, we've never been at war with our federal government. What I can tell you for certain is that this is not sustainable. This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in. And at the same time, we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order. And we're in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street, to stand by their neighbors. We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another. Take out that phone and hit record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecutions. This is happening as clashes between local officials and ICE agents have turned into daily headlines. Federal judges have already weighed in. Lawsuits from Minnesota challenging aggressive immigration enforcement are widening through the courts. And citizens, caught between constitutional arguments and violent confrontations, they're asking, well, who really controls our streets, our money, and our future right now? Well, stick with me as we unpack the true impact of this funding cutoff, the legal battlefield with the Supreme Court in the background, and why Minnesota may be the most consequential state in America right now. Drop a like and subscribe to the channel. Okay, this is where the story stops being political theater and it becomes financial reality. When Donald J. Trump announced the federal payments to sanctuary jurisdictions would be cut off starting February 1st, 2026, he wasn't making a speech. He was pulling a lever. Presidents don't need Congress to withhold discretionary federal funds, and that, my friends, is the distinction that most people miss. This is not legislation. It's enforcement through budget control. Sanctuary policy used to be symbolic. States could posture, cities could defy, and basically Washington would still wire the money anyway. That era has just ended. Once funding becomes conditional, every policy choice suddenly has a price tag attached to it. Transportation grants, public safety funding, housing programs, administrative reimbursements, all of it becomes negotiable, and Minnesota is quietly exposed. Unlike wealth-dense states with diverse tax bases, Minnesota's budget relies very heavily on federal pass-through dollars. This is why President Trump's move lands as a fatal blow. It bypasses debate, it ignores lawsuits in the short term, and it forces immediate consequences. No speeches can replace missing money. A lot of viewers ask the same question, why Minnesota? Why not California? Why not New York? The question is simple. Leverage. Minnesota sits in a dangerous middle zone, politically defiant but financially dependent. That makes it the perfect test case. Under Tim Walz, the state expanded programs that are heavily subsidized by federal dollars while simultaneously escalating rhetoric against the federal enforcement. That's a bad combination. Usually, you don't do something like that unless you're really stupid. When enforcement pressure increased, Minnesota didn't quietly comply. It openly challenged Washington, D.C. That's when the spotlight turned red-hot. There's also some history here. Minnesota has already been under scrutiny for massive fraud exposure in federally funded programs. That matters because it weakens the state's moral and legal footing when arguing for continued funding without conditions. Trump did not choose Minnesota randomly. He chose it strategically. It's large enough to send a national message, vulnerable enough to feel the pain quickly, and politically loud enough that compliance or collapse will be visible to every other sanctuary state watching the show. This is where the pressure turns personal. Tim Walz didn't just inherit a sanctuary framework. He owned it. In fact, for years, Tim Walz framed resistance to federal immigration enforcement as some kind of moral leadership. He used language about standing up to Washington, protecting communities, and treating ICE cooperation as optional. That rhetoric played very well politically, but it boxed him in legally and financially. Now he's screwed. So here's the part most people miss. Once Tim Walz publicly defined Minnesota as non-cooperative, he removed any plausible deniability. When enforcement escalated, the federal government didn't have to infer intent. In Tim Walz's infinite genius, he had already stated it. And that right there made conditional funding enforcement easier to justify and harder to contest. So now, Tim Walz has three bad options. He can comply and alienate his base. He can escalate and deeper his financial damage. Or he can stall and hope that the courts save him. Backing down quietly really isn't available anymore because his own words eliminated the off-ramp. And so this is why this isn't just a policy failure. It's a strategic one. 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When you call, tell my friends at Chapter I said hello, or they're clicking the link down below to go to askchapter.org forward slash Ron to make sure that their plan actually works for them and not against them. All right, so let's get back to it because the financial consequences that we're seeing in Minnesota, it doesn't stop at politics. If the state feels the pressure, the city feels the pain first. So Jacob Frey is now finding himself trapped between ideology and arithmetic. I want to ask you about this. When you talk about the confusion, and you've been open obviously about your support for the president, when you look at the videos of what happened, and I'm sure they're very hard for you, Timmy, to watch if you've even been able to, but the deputy attorney general says that the justice department doesn't believe that there's evidence to back a criminal investigation. Nothing about charges or anything like that, just an investigation into what happened in terms of the ICE agent's actions. But they were, according to the prosecutors resigning today, pressuring them to investigate Renee's actions and Becca, her wife's actions. How do you feel about all that? Well, you know, I'm not blaming anybody. I mean, it's a hard situation all the way around. It's hard for everybody involved. I mean, the ICE agent at first, I didn't see the footage where he was actually being ran. I mean, I've seen the bump of the car hitting his legs. And so in a flash like that, it's hard to say how you'd react from my understanding that he had been through that before, maybe dragged or something. And so, like I said, it's just a hard situation for everybody. Becca, she's a great person as well. I mean, you know, I don't have any many enemies. I love everybody. And that's what the Bible tells us, love our neighbors as we love ourselves. But, you know, I think there's some bad choices. And the word says, for the wrath of God will come upon the children of disobedience. And, you know, it's, I don't blame us. I don't blame Rebecca. I don't blame Renee. I just, you know, I just wish that, you know, if we're walking in the spirit of God, I don't think she would have been there. That's the way I look at it. So comfortable with that? I'm comfortable with the federal government enforcing U.S. immigration laws. And these kinds of distractions take away from the story of the day. You had an ICE agent last night chasing down a Venezuelan national. That Venezuelan national attacked him and fought him, two other Venezuelan nationals attacked him. And then you have a guy who's been chasing down and attacked him with brooms, handles and shovels, which are deadly weapons. He had to discharge his weapon. Because if you look at the mainstream press, they're helping him. They're misportraying the situation on the ground. We had an agent, an officer last night, viciously attacked with weapons, three on one, where his life was in danger. And he defended himself. And you see a lot of news reports out there that it was another ICE shooting. They didn't report anything about the weapons or the fact that these individuals came out of a home to beat him mercilessly with a shovel and that he had to protect his own life and his colleagues that were soon coming to back him up. Now, Minneapolis relies very heavily on federal grants for policing assistance, transit funding, housing stabilization and administrative reimbursements. Now, these are not abstract line items. They keep the city functioning. The problem is timing. Minneapolis is already cash strapped. They're strained. Public safety staffing is thin. Infrastructure projects are midstream. Housing programs are fully subscribed. So when federal dollars slow or even stop, there is no cushion. You can't replace Washington money overnight with local taxes without triggering massive backlash or flight. And so at the same time, Frey faces activist pressure to resist ICE cooperation at all costs. Move over, ICE mommies. Trantifa will take it from here. That's what you get when you come to Minnesota. From here on out, it's J6 every night in Minneapolis after the call went out from Governor Walz. And if you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Timmy came out last night and told the mommy mob to hit the streets and stalk agents with cameras. The only thing you're not allowed to record are Somali fraud rings. This time, the crowd looked a little gnarlier, if you can believe it. It looked like a big Antifa reunion. And they were doing a lot more than just recording. They broke into an FBI vehicle and used a tow rope to rip out a weapons locker. Masked vigilantes looted the car, stole weapon, bulletproof vests, stacks of sensitive government documents. These documents had names of federal agents and their locations. The rioters immediately exploited the intel and began doxing agents online. This was a major intelligence breach. Homan just announced they've arrested the perpetrator and he's going to face felony charges. But countless federal agents' lives are now in danger. Meanwhile, Homan's family is getting death threats, and the ICE agent who got rammed by was forced into hiding. And left-wing militants are joining forces, threatening the lives of federal police. Here are the Black Panthers. I put a hole in their chest the size of a window. We're a little more aggressive now, you dig? You want to correct the ideology of the pig and the mentality of the slave catcher? You meet them with equal force. You've got the minivan militia, the Black Panthers, Antifa, and now the bad hombres feel like they have backup. Yesterday, ICE was attacked by a group of violent Biden migrants. Three Venezuelan nationals jumped an ICE agent with weapons. All three were caught and released by Biden and had been harbored in the sanctuary city of Minneapolis. Julio was the target. A traffic stop turned into a vehicle pursuit. He crashed then fled on foot. When the agent caught him, his two Venezuelan amigos came out and started hitting the agent with a snow shovel and a broom handle. The officer was forced to fire off a defensive shot, hitting Julio in the leg before the three of them ran into an apartment and barricaded themselves inside. Eventually, they all got iced. But this hombre Julio doesn't seem like he has any regrets. Here he is grinning ear to ear at the hospital. This is who the left is trying to protect. Violent Venezuelans with criminal histories. The media too. Look at this headline from the Times. Federal agent shoots man in Minneapolis. A man in Minneapolis. That's how the media stokes violence. These ICE stalkers just see the headline, they think ICE is on a killing spree, so they hit the streets and riot. Never let a crisis go to waste, right? So now Democrats are using an ICE agent getting attacked with a shovel as an excuse to give people free rent. I'm bringing a resolution calling on Governor Walz to declare eviction moratorium because as we're living under this occupation, people can't, as we've seen with last night's shootings, they can't even travel on the expressway safely. They're using the word occupation for federal officials to be in an American city. By their logic, the whole country is being occupied by and their solution is to violently expel them. Naturally, people are taking it as a call to arms. Homeland Security last night arrested a man assaulting a federal agent in the Twin Cities. Police found a handgun and a box of ammo on him. Mayor Smallfry was justifying the insurrection. Imagine if that city or that town was suddenly invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not share the values that you hold dear. The invaders who don't hold our values are the illegals. They're saying federal police don't have the right to be in Minneapolis, but MS-13 does. Murderers, sex traffickers, thieves, they're trying to keep us out and them in. They want to turn their town into an anti-ice igloo. We are on our own, so what are you going to do about it? I acknowledge the difficulty of a city standing up to the federal government, but that should only inspire our creativity. I would recommend that our snowplows should dump snow to block the roads to the Whipple building and any staging areas to prevent these thugs from launching violent raids on our city. An SUV was just caught dumping water around a federal building to ice the roads so agents and their cars slip and crash. And they want their local cops to get in a shootout with the feds. And we're in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ice agents on the street. So that kind of leaves him trying to satisfy groups that don't balance budgets while managing a city that absolutely must. So this is why Minneapolis cannot absorb the shock. City leadership is caught between demands that create risk and financial realities that punish defiance. Something has to give, and it ain't going to be the math. So here's where the narrative split from reality. Why was Rene Good unfortunately and tragically killed? Are you asking me my opinion? Because an ice agent acted recklessly and killed an Okay, so you're a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion. What do you want me to do? Yeah, because you're a left-wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist, and it's so clear by the premise of your question. And you and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist, you shouldn't even be sitting in that seat. But you're pretending like you're a journalist, but you're a left-wing activist. And the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias. You should be reporting on the facts. You should be reporting on the cases. Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don't. I bet you didn't even read up on those stories. I bet you never even read about Lake and Riley or Jocelyn Nongre or all of the innocent Americans who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country. And the brave men and women of ICE are doing everything in their power to remove those heinous individuals and make our communities safer. And shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view and have a biased view and pretend like you're a real honest journalist. And these people who want to say follow ICE and film ICE, you know what? You can protest. They have that right. But when you cross that line and we've proven it, if you interfere or impede or assault an ICE officer, you will be prosecuted. And one thing I'm pushing for right now, Laura, we're going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impediment, assault, we're going to make them famous. We're going to put their face on TV. We're going to let their employers in their neighborhoods, in their schools know who these people are. Because as you said, a lot of these people, they say they're taking time off work to protest. I bet you a lot of them are calling in sick. I bet you a lot of their employers don't know what they're doing. But we're going to make sure everybody knows who they are. We're going to broadcast. They want to broadcast the ICE officer that was nearly killed all over the internet. We're going to broadcast every one of these people we arrest. I know you just talked to a high place source at DOJ. Tell us more. Yes. So he actually wasn't arrested last night. He could have been, but the Minneapolis police didn't bother chasing the vehicle that had just stolen a high powered rifle out of an FBI car. So that stole it out of one of these weapons lockers that was in the back. But what I can confirm now is that Raul Gutierrez, age 33, that you see in the video that I posted last night, stealing a firearm from an FBI vehicle has been arrested by the ATF and the DOJ. They executed an arrest warrant today. And he's a known member of the Latin Kings gang. I just got all this information just before I came on air. Critics keep calling this an occupation, but what actually changed on the ground is far more specific and far more deliberate. ICE didn't suddenly flood Minnesota with random agents. The surge focused on targeted enforcement, prioritizing individuals that are already flagged through federal databases, outstanding removal orders and prior criminal contact. So what's different this time is coordination. ICE operations are now tightly synchronized with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, which means fewer ad hoc encounters and more legally documented actions. Now that matters. It matters because it reduces the procedural vulnerabilities that states often exploit in court. Now, this surge is also legally distinct from past operations. It's not built on new law or emergency authority. It's built on existing federal powers that were underused or deprioritized before. So this is why calling it new enforcement is totally misleading. The authority was always there. It's just being exercised consistently now. And that consistency is exactly what sanctuary jurisdictions were not prepared for. So when Minnesota and Illinois filed suit against the Trump administration, headlines framed it as a major resistance moment. Now, in reality, the lawsuit reveals exactly how limited state power actually is when confronting federal enforcement. States can challenge how federal authority is exercised, but they cannot veto whether it exists. Federal supremacy in immigration is well-established. Courts have repeatedly affirmed that states cannot block federal agents from enforcing federal law. So at best, lawsuits like this can slow down the specific tactics or force procedural clarifications, but they cannot shut down enforcement entirely. And they certainly can't compel Washington to keep writing the checks. So this is the key weakness here. Even if Minnesota wins narrow injunctions, it doesn't restore funding or eliminate enforcement authority. It buys time and nothing more. And time cuts both ways. Every week this drags on, uncertainty deepens for budgets and programs and leadership credibility. So while officials celebrate filing papers, the underlying leverage remains with the federal government. The courtroom may delay the impact, but it doesn't reverse it. So this is where a lot of people get misled by the headlines. Yes, a federal judge placed limits on certain ICE tactics in Minnesota, but limits are not a shutdown. The ruling was narrow, procedural, and it was specific. It did not strip ICE of enforcement authority. It did not halt removals, and it did not force the federal government to restore funding. What the judge did was contain how some operations could be carried out during protests and high-tension encounters. Now, that's really important, but it's not decisive. ICE is still allowed to operate, it's still allowed to arrest, and it's still allowed to coordinate with federal partners. So the machinery just keeps on moving. This is why Donald J. Trump still holds the advantage. Enforcement continues, funding pressure remains, and the state is still forced to respond. Tactical limitations don't change strategic reality. In fact, they often strengthen it because they push federal agencies to operate even more cleanly, more carefully, and defensively. That makes future legal challenges harder and not easier. So, at its core, this fight isn't just about immigration. It's about who governs. The executive branch enforces the law. The courts interpret it. States administer within those boundaries. What Minnesota is attempting to do is blur that hierarchy. The president doesn't need permission from governors to enforce federal law. That's not a Trump theory. This is a constitutional structure. Courts can review excesses, but they don't replace executive authority. And when courts issue narrow rulings, enforcement adapts. This is the system working as designed. Trump understands this, and so by enforcing repeated judicial review, he's not retreating, he's just clarifying the boundaries for the next decade. Each ruling, even the partial ones, creates precedent. And precedent cuts both ways. Once the courts affirm federal supremacy again and again, state resistance becomes weaker over time. This is why this moment matters beyond Minnesota. This is like a stress test for federal authority, and so far, the structure is holding up pretty well. This is where the entire sanctuary framework starts to unravel. Sanctuary policies don't survive on slogans. They survive on money. Once federal cash slows or stops, the math turns brutal. The first programs hit aren't symbolic ones. They're the boring, expensive essentials, the transit grants, the housing assistance, administrative reimbursements, public safety coordination, and health-related funding streams that are tied directly to federal compliance. Cities like Minneapolis don't have discretionary reserves sitting around to plug those holes. State budgets can't simply reshuffle billions of dollars without consequences. And activists don't vote on appropriations. Legislatures do. That's the disconnect. The loudest voices demanding resistance aren't even responsible for balancing the books when Washington's money dries up. This is why federal funding is such a powerful leverage tool. It forces a choice between ideology and solvency. Sanctuary policies depend on a steady inflow of dollars while simultaneously rejecting federal authority. Once that contradiction is exposed, the policy collapses under its own weight. You can posture all day long until you're blue in the face all you want. But you cannot operate a government on principles alone. You need money. Now we get to the unavoidable question. What happens to Tim Walz from here? The political reality is narrowing fast. Walz can pretend that this is temporary, he can't blame Washington forever, and he can't claim surprise. The choices in front of him are all bad and public. Comply. That means cooperating with federal enforcement and quietly restoring funding, but it detonates his political identity. Escalate. This keeps his base energized, but it risks deeper financial damage and broader federal intervention. Stall. Delay. Litigate. Deflect. And hope something external changes. This is the path he appears to be on right now. But stalling has a cost. Every week of uncertainty erodes confidence, credibility, and control. Not to mention his balance sheet. Voters notice dysfunction. This is why Tim Walz isn't emerging as a national leader in this moment. He's becoming a warning, a case study, if you will, in what happens when rhetoric outruns authority. So this is the part most commentators miss. Minnesota's not the end game. Minnesota is the example. Donald J. Trump doesn't need to pick fights with every sanctuary state at the same time. He only needs one visible case where defiance produces consequences. Once that happens, compliance spreads quietly. Other sanctuary states are watching Minnesota right now not because they agree with Tim Walz but because they recognize the risk. Budgets don't lie. When funding becomes conditional and enforcement becomes consistent, ideology suddenly gets expensive. And most governors are not eager to explain to voters why transit projects stalled, or housing programs froze, or public safety budgets shrank. This is why Trump doesn't need Congress here. He's using existing executive authority, existing funding discretion, and existing enforcement powers. No new laws. No emergency declarations. No executive orders. Just leverage. And once one state blinks, the rest don't need to be threatened. They just adjust on their own. That's the strategy, not spectacle. So here's where we land. This wasn't chaos. This wasn't revenge. And it wasn't rhetoric. What you're watching in Minnesota is exactly what law and order actually looks like in 2026. Enforcement paired with consequences. Authority paired with accountability. Power used, not just promised. Tim Walz gambled that resistance would be cost-free. But it wasn't. Jacob Frey tried to balance ideology and solvency. But the math didn't cooperate with him. And Minnesota learned the hard way that sanctuary policies don't survive contact with fiscal reality. Meanwhile, Trump didn't shout. He didn't posture. He pulled the lever that matters the most. The money. And he forced a choice that no speech could undo. This is why this moment matters beyond Minneapolis. It shows what happens when federal authority is asserted calmly, legally, and consistently. Now, this wasn't about winning an argument. It's about governing. And like it or not, this is the model that every state now has to reckon with. Like it. Subscribe. We'll see you next time.