Bennie Thompson: “We owe it to taxpayers to ensure that these funds are appropriately used, fully accounted for, and auditable.”

That kind of talent, you just don't find it every day.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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.

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.