Bennie Thompson: “Each year, the Department of Homeland Security spends approximately one-fourth of its entire budget on procuring goods…”

This unlawful policy is a smokescreen to deny Member visits to ICE offices across the country, which are holding migrants – and sometimes even U.S. citizens – for days at a time.

Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.

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.