Bennie Thompson: “We are doing everything we can to show that we are not partisan, that this committee is just trying to get to the facts.”

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

If ICE has nothing to hide, DHS must make its facilities available.

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.