Bennie Thompson: “We had to do everything in our power to provide first responders and State and local governments with resources to…”

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.

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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