Bennie Thompson: “I'm grateful to Congress for coming together to appropriate funds we States could use to run our elections in a…”

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

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.