Bennie Thompson: “I hope this incident will result in less rhetoric about, and demonizing of, Transportation Security Officers.”

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

This unlawful policy is a smokescreen to deny Member visits to ICE offices across the country, which are holding migrants – and sometimes even U.S. citizens – for days at a time.

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.