Bennie Thompson: “I hope you join me in looking forward to the approval of Mr. Johnson to lead the Department of Homeland Security.”

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.'

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.