Senator's resurfaced comment on who Democrats care about the 'most' sparks online outrage: 'He really said it'
Murphy's 2024 comment was blasted by Bernie Moreno, Elon Musk and a White House official
Andrew Mark Miller By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
Published March 24, 2026 12:18pm EDT
A resurfaced post by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy discussing the people Democrats "care about most" is sparking social media outrage from conservatives, making the case it points to their priorities in the current fight on Department of Homeland Security funding.
In the clip, posted on Monday night by the conservative influencer account End Wokeness, MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Murphy in 2024 about negotiations between Democrats and Republicans happening at the time about a border security bill. Hayes pressed Murphy on why Democrats were pushing to get funding for Ukraine instead of pushing for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, as the party had done in the past.
"Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years," Murphy replied. "So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country."
Conservatives quickly picked up on the clip and argued it’s emblematic of why Democrats haven't been motivated to end the DHS shutdown that they voted for in February in opposition to ICE, even as concerns about national security during the war with Iran linger.
"This has absolutely proven to be true and never more than this week," Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, posted on X. "Senate Democrats have allowed 260,000 American workers to be used as political pawns so that they could protect criminal aliens that invaded our nation. Sick stuff."
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2036267043394105443"Treachery," Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk posted on X.
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