Oh, Karoline, you absolute propagandist, you're out here blaming Democrats for TSA lines while your party controls the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Let me explain how grown-ups handle accountability since your press release clearly skipped that day.
Democrats offered to fund TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, and CISA immediately. Senator Patty Murray literally put a bill on the floor to pay those agencies while negotiations continued over the parts of DHS your party refuses to reform. Republicans blocked it. Senator Katie Britt called it "defunding law enforcement" and killed the vote. Every TSA agent working without pay right now, every hour-long security line at airports across this country, that's on your party. Your leadership. Your refusal to accept basic accountability measures like requiring warrants for home arrests, visible ID so agents can't hide behind masks, and no raids in schools and churches where kids and families are trying to exist.
And spare me the SAVE Act nonsense you keep tying to this. You're standing there claiming married women won't be affected while the Brennan Center and multiple voting rights organizations have documented that 21 million Americans lack ready access to proof of citizenship documents and 69 million married women have names that don't match their birth certificates . The Heritage Foundation, your own buddies, found exactly 24 cases of non-citizen voting in 20 years. Twenty-four. In two decades. You're holding the entire Department of Homeland Security hostage, forcing TSA workers to show up without paychecks, to solve a problem that doesn't exist while building a national purge machine so broken it's already being sued for flagging naturalized citizens as non-citizens years after they became American .
You're fighting for the right to terrorize communities without oversight, and you're using TSA agents as human shields. Fund the damn department. Democrats already tried. Stop your lying and do your fucking job.
@PressSec@DHSgov Your war for Israel has cost America billions that was better off helping Americans you morons. Now we have 15 dead American soldiers and nothing to show for. Massive failure. God Bless the USA 🇺🇸
@PressSec The claim that “Democrats are blocking the reopening” is only half the story. The shutdown continues because both sides are blocking each other’s proposals in a political stalemate and ultimately the responsibility lies with President Trump.
@PressSec Why, for the love of God are we not putting messaging in airports near the TSA lines that tells us that the Democrats have blocked reopening the country DHS. And that the long lines are courtesy of the Democrats.
@PressSec Actually, that's not true, is it KKKaroline?
Republicans voted 5 times, FIVE FRIGGING TIMES to NOT PAY them.
Blame Senate ReTrumplicans for @TSA not getting paid.
@TheJusticeDept funding could be debated another time, if you TRULY want to pay the others... but NO.
YOUR CHOICE
@PressSec Pull out your poison pill of funding Trump's Thug Army, and Democrats will approve DHS's funding.
America doesn't want arrests and deportations without lawful warrants, and we certainly don't want murders of American citizens.
Stop blaming Democrats for representing the People.