As I look at your $55 billion budget request for fiscal year 2010, I can't help but think about the stimulative impact that DHS could have if it went the extra mile and sought out small and minority businesses for contracting opportunities.
Thompson emphasizes the importance of small businesses in DHS contracting.
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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.
Whether it's the Capitol on January 6 or Los Angeles this weekend, it's clear Trump is totally fine with lighting the match to stoke violence if he thinks it'll help him politically.
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.
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