Bennie Thompson: “They're not putting the country before the party, and that's what bothers me the most because I, as a former soldier, I…”

The department was using 'flat out wrong anti-union talking points.'

The department was using flat out wrong anti-union talking points.

There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.

Whether it's the Capitol on January 6 or Los Angeles this weekend, it's clear Trump is totally fine with lighting the match to stoke violence if he thinks it'll help him politically.