Brian Higgins: “We are entering the longest government shutdown in the Nation's history and, ironically, most of the Federal employees…”

“We are entering the longest government shutdown in the Nation's history and, ironically, most of the Federal employees who are affected by the shutdown are the very Federal agents who we depend on to protect our borders. To a national audience 2 days ago, the President repeatedly warned that terrorists are pouring into the United States from Mexico. This is the President's central argument for a 25 to $40 billion border wall. He is now threatening to declare a national emergency to go around Congress to get that wall. The President's own counterterrorism officials and experts said there has never been a case of a known terrorist sneaking into the country through open areas of the southern border. The Department of Homeland Security's threat assessment rates the situation at the southern border as a minimal threat. Who are we to believe? Mr. President, open the government and prove that you can manage the situation at the border as Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton did before you. ____________________”