THE DEMOCRATS SHUTDOWN GOVERNMENT AGAIN!
It seems that the only thing the Democrats can accomplish since Pres. Trump’s election is shutting down the government and putting thousands of people out of jobs, jeopardizing families’ income and harassing common citizens with long lines at the airports. They have yet to recognize that all of this disruption is because of their wrecked policies under Pres. Biden.
The U.S. federal government entered a shutdown on October 1, 2025, following Congress's failure to pass funding bills, which lasted 43 days and became the longest in U.S. history. The shutdown impacted over 1.4 million federal employees, with many furloughed or working without pay, and significantly disrupted economic activity and government services before ending on November 12, 2025.
Two shutdowns of the U.S. federal government have occurred in 2026, both arising from disputes in Congress about reforms to federal immigration enforcement after the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents. The first shutdown lasted four days from January 31 to February 3, affecting about half of the departments of the federal government; it was caused by delays in approving a funding package that would allow time for reform negotiations. The second began on February 14 and still continues due to a lack of progress in the reform negotiations effecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes Transportation and Security Agency (TSA), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Coast Guard.
Other departments are affected: Transportation (DOT) with disruptions to air traffic control and infrastructure projects; Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with delays in processing new FHA mortgage loans and housing grants; Treasury and IRS with reduced taxpayer services and delays in processing non-automated tax refunds; Small Business Administration (SBA) stops approving new loans and guarantees; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with high percentage of staff furloughed, halting non-emergency inspections; Commerce Department and NASA with major workforce furloughs; National Parks and Tourism with many parks closed and decreased workforce.
Ha Nguyen McNeill, the top official at the TSA, testified about the dire air travel situation before the House Homeland Security Committee, where she is calling on Congress to fund DHS and "ensure this never happens again."
McNeill said the TSA has already lost more than 480 transportation security officers during this shutdown, while callout rates have accelerated. At some airports, 40 to 50% of their workforce is calling out of work on certain days, she said. "This has led to the highest wait times in TSA history, with some wait times greater than four and a half hours," McNeill said. "We are being forced to consolidate lanes and may have to close smaller airports if we do not have enough officers. It is a fluid, challenging and unpredictable situation."
McNeill said they have also seen a more than 500% increase in the frequency of assaults on TSA officers since the shutdown began. The TSA official said if the agency remains shut down on Friday, "we will have reached nearly $1 billion in missed paychecks. This level of disruption is unprecedented and unacceptable and significantly undermines the security of U.S. transportation systems," she added.
McNeill said many in TSA's workforce have missed bill payments, received eviction notices, had cars repossessed or utilities shut off. "Some are sleeping in their cars, selling their blood and plasma, and taking on second jobs to make ends meet," she said. "All while being expected to perform at the highest level when in uniform to protect the traveling public."
What is the Democrats problem? The same as it has always been, DEFUND THE POLICE! They are holding up pay checks because they don’t want ICE. They feel the shooting in Minnesota were unwarranted. They were unwarranted because the Democratic leadership in Minnesota did not co-operate with ICE and consequently gave the mob a reason to resist federal agents. Republicans and Democrats had agreed to a bill in January, before fatal shootings in Minneapolis upended the deal.
Now we are under threat of violence by those who support the terrorist regime of Iran and we have no Homeland Security, diminished security on air travel, and no ICE to protect against illegal alien threats on our streets. Well done, Democrats!
"Yesterday morning Republicans sent a simple three-page amendment to the Democrats that removed ERO language from the bipartisan DHS bill and added language to ensure employees receive backpay," Wrasse wrote, referring to ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division. "All of the original reforms are still included in the bill. All of the other original bipartisan language is still in the bill."
Wrasse said the proposal "provides a clear path to end the Democrats' shutdown, reopen DHS, make employees whole again, and continue to focus on the areas of disagreement, all of which Democrats say they want."
He said talks over ERO can proceed after DHS is funded, and that "Republicans predicted that Democrats would attempt to defund law enforcement, which is why they prefunded ICE in last year's Working Families Tax Cuts," referring to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Haven’t we suffered enough over the Democrats’ Open Border Policy, the increased gang violence, the unwillingness to get illegals off our streets, the open-door policies of our justice system, the murders and rapes done by aliens, and the financial burden to take care of those who illegally entered our country? When do we stop voting these Democrats into office?
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