Bennie Thompson: “Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I would like to thank Chairman Richmond for holding today's hearing on emerging…”

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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.

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