Bennie Thompson: “The overall response at LAX left much to be desired.”

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.

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

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.