Bennie Thompson: “We applaud Congressman Thompson and the House of Representatives for the introduction and passing of the FEMA Equity…”

The President spoke to the Black Caucus this evening. He talked about continuing the support of his administration. He talked about the policies that he had put forth that had benefited many of our constituents.

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.

let me summarize how we got here: Department of Homeland Security immigration agents killed two American citizens in Minneapolis. and Democrats demanded accountability from the Trump administration. Instead of working with Democrats to…