Bennie Thompson: “I want to thank them very much for working under some of the trying conditions, like not getting paid.”

The department was using 'flat out wrong anti-union talking points.'

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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.

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