Bennie Thompson: “Congress has charged the Department of Homeland Security with important responsibilities associated with taking on…”

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.

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.'