Bennie Thompson: “This man has a substantial career, and one that I think should go and give him a little more deference.”

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.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.

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

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.