Bennie Thompson: “The 10 percent cut to the grant programs, including the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, is a significant hit…”

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.

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

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