Bennie Thompson: “That allows, Mr. Speaker, the Coast Guard to partner with the State and local entities to protect the security zones…”

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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.

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

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.