By THE ALASKA STORY
Jan. 31, 2026 – Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted in favor of an amendment to repeal (or rescind) an additional $75 billion in multi-year funding allocated to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE.
The vote was on a Bernie Sanders-sponsored amendment to redirect that $75 billion (from prior Republican-backed legislation) to Medicaid instead. It was mostly a party-line vote, but Murkowski (along with Susan Collins and Democrats/Independents) supported the amendment to repeal the extra ICE funding.
The vote is typical of the kind of vote that Murkowski casts, one that is symbolic but does not change the course of events. The measure passed without her support. It was a case reminiscent of “Lucy and the Football” from the Peanuts cartoon: Earlier in January, she voted for a Republican budget package providing ICE with nearly $85 billion (more than the US Marine Corps budget at the time), and she has emphasized accountability and management over outright defunding. Now, she wants money clawed back.
Murkowski has also called  for Homeland Security Secretary of Kristi Noem to step down.
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Senator Murkowski,
As a proud and loyal Alaskan, I must express my utter disgust and profound disappointment in your recent actions, which can only be described as a treasonous betrayal of American security, conservative principles, and the very constituents who once trusted you to stand firm against the radical left’s agenda.
How dare you align yourself with the likes of Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed socialist whose every policy is designed to weaken our institutions, in voting to rescind a staggering $75 billion in critical, multi-year funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)? This wasn’t just any vote; it was a deliberate stab in the back to the men and women who risk their lives daily to enforce our borders and protect us from chaos. Redirecting those funds to bloated â€inefficient’ / â€ineffective’ Medicaid programs? That’s not fiscal responsibility; it’s a cynical ploy to appease Democrats while pretending to be “independent.” And let’s not forget the context: Just earlier this month, you voted in favor of a Republican budget package that handed ICE nearly $85 billion—more than the entire U.S. Marine Corps budget at the time—while preaching about accountability and better management. Now, you’re clawing it back like that little â€hussy’ Lucy yanking away Charlie Brown’s football. Hypocrisy doesn’t even begin to cover it; this is outright duplicity.
Your symbolic gestures change nothing, as the amendment ultimately failed without needing your support to pass the broader measure. But that’s the point, isn’t it? You deviantly cast these votes knowing they’ll fizzle out, allowing you to virtue-signal to moderates and liberals while avoiding real accountability. It’s a pattern with you, straddling the fence so artfully that you’ve become the poster child for RINO politics … the “two-faced” actions Alaskans abhorrently despise with great fervor. And topping it off by calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to step down? After her department’s efforts to finally enforce the laws you once claimed to support? This isn’t leadership; it’s the pinnacle of “two-faced” treasonous cowardice wrapped in a veneer of bipartisanship.
Senator, your actions undermine national security at a time when our borders are under siege, embolden our enemies, and erode the trust of true conservatives. Treasonous? Absolutely, in the court of public opinion where loyalty to America’s sovereignty should come first. Alaska and Alaskans deserve better than a senator who plays both sides for political survival. Resign, or at least have the decency to switch parties and stop pretending to represent us.
With righteous indignation, yours truly!
Well spoken Rob!!!! Well spoken!! I agree with you whole heartedly. I would be willing to wager that if you were to send this to the Anchorage Daily Snooze, aka associated press dispenser, they would not put it in as a letter to the editor.
Very well said. I believe that you can’t serve 2 gods. You can’t love God and mammon. The Word says you will love one and hate the other. The love of money is the root of all evil. That’s also in the Word of God Who will have final say for eternity. Who are you serving?
I almost stopped reading at “outright duplicity” but was pleasantly pacified when you wrote “pinnacle of two-faced treasonous cowardice wrapped in a veneer of bipartisanship”
Thank you Bob, we’ll written analysis of Alaska’s most dangerous RINO, Daddy’s little princess Lisa!
“Murkowski votes to pull back money for murdering citizens.” There. Fixed that for you.
“Murk-cow-ski votes in favor of the pro-radical-leftist, anti-American, pro-globalist, pro-destructionist agenda. As always.”
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Princess Lisa, like you Hans, is a traitor to this nation and all that it has ever stood for, and adheres to an evil political and social agenda that constitutes a Satanic inversion of good and evil.
Thank you J: the Kitten needed a bath. 🛠🧼
Like any other radical leftist, Princess Lisa can invariably be counted on to take the wrong position, make the wrong decision, and vote the wrong way. Up is down, black is white, and good is bad in the bizarro Lisa World.
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I wish somebody would throw a bucket of water over her already.
No, no Hans “Murkowski pulls back money so murdering illegal aliens get to continue to roam free unencumbered”
There NOW it’s fixed!
Agree….Hans needs a red pill as do all democrats and RINOs. But instead Hans will watch Hollywood despots receive awards from their peer despots and keep CNN and MSNBC (now) at the top of his favorite channel list.
Nancy and I received a phone call from DHS last week wanting to know what they should do with our great grandkids. Turned out that Lisa put them in a Somali-run day care center and left them there. We asked DHS if the children were all paid up and DHS told us that the Somalees wanted more money. Nancy and I had to write a big check to get our great-grandkids back because Lisa went on vacation to Mexico to her vacation home. This is nothing but domestic piracy. Lock em up.
DHS could send some of the Somalians to Mexico, and stay with Lisa in her luxury digs. Trump would gladly ship them out at no cost to Lisa. She might even get some free babysitting.
The check was made out to … The Somali Walz LEARING Day Kare Centor …!!
Greg,
That’s where Lisa went to law school, the Somali Learning Center. Now you know the reason why she took the Bar Exam over and over and failed and failed, until she got the answers before she took exam #8. And I paid for all of those exams, and bribed the ABA. I moved to Wrangell, far away from the Somali pirates and Lisa.
I tried the contact via email page for her. It wss inoperative last night, so I left a,voicemail asking her to resign and never come back to Alaska. perhaps Hans should leave as well
Get her out of office!!!