Bennie Thompson: “Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson says they are not yet at the point of going to court.”

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

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

At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.

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.