The Department of Homeland Security ran out of money on Saturday. Did anyone notice? Probably not, unless you had to travel and see TSA.
As our informed readers will remember, the Democrats insisted that the DHS funding bill could not be passed “as is,” because they wanted more “guardrails” and restrictions on ICE. So the rest of the spending bills were passed at the end of January, but the DHS funding bill got a two week extension. Those two weeks ended on Saturday morning.
But as the clock wound down, John Fetterman pointed out an unpleasant truth to Democrats. For all their grandstanding, ICE operations are continuing on and fully funded, thanks to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill last July.
Well, here we are, Democrats. ICE is still completely functional, but TSA employees are not getting paid. Way to go!
Employees of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), which is housed within DHS, are working without pay as of early Saturday morning — when the funding lapse began.
According to DHS’s shutdown contingency plan published in September, just more than 95 percent of TSA employees are exempt and will remain on board during the shutdown. The remaining workers, an estimated 2,933 out of 64,130, were furloughed....
Join the conversation as a VIP Member