Bennie Thompson: “I would ask unanimous consent to submit for the record a letter written by the Governor of the Virgin Islands on…”

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.

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

It should go without saying that administration officials should not be using Signal for discussing intelligence matters reserved for the situation room — not to mention doing so incompetently by including members of the public.

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.