Bennie Thompson: “We really have to fix that and some other things.”

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.

Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.