(The Center Square) – A Republican Illinois state legislator says being cut off during a point of personal privilege is evidence of the Democratic party’s stranglehold on public discourse.
Early in House session Tuesday in Springfield, state Rep. Hoan Huynh, D-Chicago, stood up to criticize the Trump administration’s end to diversity, equity and inclusion in the military.
“This Trump administration is an embarrassment to our country, an embarrassment to our country,” Huynh yelled. “Trump is an embarrassment to our country.”
For the past few weeks, Democrats in the House have been criticizing the Trump administration on everything from ending DEI, to President Donald Trump’s policies against gender ideology and men in women’s sports and the efforts to find waste, fraud and abuse by the Department of Government Efficiency.
State Rep. Jeff Keicher, R-Sycamore, rose to lodge a complaint about the lack of decorum
“What we saw today is unfair to the people of the state of Illinois who are frustrated at the indifference to making their lives better,” Keicher said.
Before he finished, Keicher was cut off by the speaker, telling him they had to move on. Keicher was later allowed to finish his point.
“Mr. Speaker, I think you offered everyone in the room a perfect opportunity to show and demonstrate through action the frustration I was trying to give voice to,” Keicher said.
Illinois Republicans are in the super minority in the statehouse. They criticize the majority party for blocking Republican ideas they say will grow the state’s economy.
Keicher said Illinois Democrats’ complaints about the Trump administration are misguided.
“While we have unemployed Illinoisans wanting us to do something to make their life better,” Keicher said.
Keicher said being cut off in the middle of his speech was “beyond the pale.”
