Dem lunges to grab gavel from GOP counterpart in HEATED Wisconsin Senate chamber

Democrats continue to exhibit unhinged, even violent behavior over the ongoing deportation of illegal immigrants, who were allowed to invade the country by the millions during the Biden administration.

Look no further than the state of Wisconsin, where an animated Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter lunged at the chairman’s gavel while calling his Republican colleagues “cowards.” The inappropriate behavior came as Carpenter argued against legislation that would bar public funds from paying for healthcare for illegal immigrants.

As the Democrat complained about “Operation Wetback,” a 1954 immigration law enforcement initiative under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican state Sen. Chris Kapenga, chairman of the Senate’s State and Federal Affairs Committee, banged the gavel in an attempt to keep the debate on track. At that moment, Carpenter stood up and made a grab for it.

“I’M GETTING TIRED OF YOU!”: Chaos erupted in the Wisconsin Senate when the chamber’s top Democrat seized the gavel, calling Republicans “cowards” and questioning their faith. The Republican chair argued Democrat’s remarks strayed beyond the bill’s scope.

The clash came as… pic.twitter.com/1U0pexPK5b

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 26, 2025

After failing to secure the gavel, the Democrat cried, “I’m getting tired of you!” He then told Kapenga he was “too cowardly to let me speak… the truth about this situation.”

“If you have a specific question about their specific bill, you can ask it. But I’m not going to sit here and allow things outside the bill. That’s my job,” Kapenga replied.

“That’s BS, that’s BS! the Democrat whined.

The GOP chairman spoke with Fox News afterwards and said he would not personally share the video of the exchange, citing concerns about political violence.

“I’m not sharing the video because this isn’t about embarrassing individuals. This is about choosing decorum and the use of measured words to persuade those of opposing opinion. Sharing stories with false information to incite fear, name-calling, and aggression,” Kapenga said.

(Carpenter spoke about a migrant woman who was deported and supposedly died after not being able to refill her prescription medication — but the truth is, the woman did not die.)

“We all know the dangerous place that’s leading society,” he added. “The upswell in the movement Charlie Kirk started shows Americans are passionate about the freedom to debate ideas, not rhetoric and violence.”

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

Dems melt down the second taxpayers demand their money stay with CITIZENS, not illegal migrants.

The chaos shows exactly where their loyalties are.

— Sheri (@FFT1776) September 26, 2025

That’s the mask slipping — Democrats can’t win the argument on substance, so they start screaming about “cowards” and hijacking gavels like toddlers throwing tantrums. This wasn’t about procedure, it was about Democrats losing their minds over Republicans daring to stop taxpayer…

— Dan Brisbois (@Dan_Brisbois) September 26, 2025

The real chaos isn’t in the chamber, it’s in the idea that taxpayers should be forced to fund healthcare for foreign nationals
who do these politicians really work for?

— Dan Holbrook (@DanHolbrook) September 26, 2025

The American people voted for mass deportations of illegals! We are not funding healthcare for those we mean to deport.
Not a penny!

— Rochellemaryn (@RochelleAz) September 26, 2025

Classic democrat, wants to bring up a republicans religion then proceeds to get violent right afterward when they dont get their way

— Evan Dyer (@EvanLeeDyer) September 26, 2025

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