A father of three felt that he had no other choice but to quit his job as a TSA officer and find other work as the Democrats' shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues: "'I think the hardest thing is seeing the struggle that my wife was going through and not trying to bring more stress to her,' Echeverria said. 'But seeing her cry every night, how am I going to feed my family? How am I going to survive?'" 📺@CBSMornings

@PressSec Seeing a spouse cry every night over how to feed the family is heartbreaking. Situations like this remind us that policy decisions affect real lives.

@PressSec Democrats caused this. @SenateGOP need to step up and do whatever it takes to pass the current DHS Funding and Save America Act now

@PressSec Wonder how many single parents got fired when the Trump admin laid off 300,000 federal workers to "save money".

@PressSec Did you see @LeaderJohnThune just get rocked on the floor by Schumer? We need someone who will FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

@PressSec The second Trump Administration fired, laid off, or otherwise unemployed more than 317,000 federal employees, and you're crying about one TSA employee who resigned so he could get paid? That's rich in irony!

@PressSec @GOP Democrats offered a stand alone bill to fund TSA. Republicans shot it down. All Republicans do is blame Democrats for their failures and take credit from Democrats successes. We the people deserve a serious government, not the pledges from a fraternity.

@PressSec Uh huh…🙄

It’s both sides of the Senate now because one side of the Senate the Republicans won’t nuke the filibuster and pass bills and that one could be simply passed with 51 votes, yet here we are America harming patriots they go to work every day to protect you and other families and all Americans without pay! While the Democrats just hate America, so which is worse. We already know what the Democrats are doing. They hate America. We get it. They want illegal aliens here, but the bottom line is this. The Republicans are not nuking the filibuster which is still harming Americans so it doesn’t matter at this point who’s right or who’s wrong? They’re both wrong. They’re both harming Americans the patriots that keep everyone safe!

@PressSec We all feel for them! Do we elect our officials to make life hard for people? We the people, for the people, by the people elected these officials to do their job not to fill their pockets!

@PressSec This hits hard. Families shouldn’t pay for political games.

@PressSec @Heritage Dems keep proposing a standalone bill to fund the TSA. Republicans keep rejecting it, because they’re playing political games.

@PressSec These guys spent a year screaming that the federal government was too big, too bloated, too expensive. Now they want you furious that the federal government isn't big enough to staff the security line. Pick a grift and stick with it.

@PressSec 317,000 federal jobs vaporized — no severance, no apology, no press conference. But one TSA agent quits for a paycheck and suddenly these people have discovered the dignity of labor. Beautiful.

@PressSec @ModerateMela It's all the game to Democrats they just don't care. They care more about their illegal alien friends than the rest of us.

@PressSec Then get Trump to get funding passed. He's God you know. Stopped the Ukrainian war in 24 hours! (oh, yeah, he didn't. And even though he controls White House, Senate, House, and packed the Supreme Court, he still can't get it up)

@PressSec Democrats refuse to fund ice because of their illegal searches, seizures, detainments, and murder. This is over the outrageous abuses by ICE, approved and cheered on by the Trump administration.

@PressSec Stop blocking the bill

@PressSec This story really hits hard. Crying Chuck and Temu Obama are a disgrace.

@PressSec Democrats proposed a bill to fund TSA. Republicans BLOCKED it. thehill.com/homenews/senat…

@PressSec GOP House, Senate and White House. If you don’t have the votes, you have to compromise. Dems offered to open every agency except ICE, and only them until basic reforms are made not to kill more Americans. Fuck you, KKKaroline Ann Conway!

@PressSec It's a Republican TSA shutdown. thehill.com/homenews/senat…

@PressSec @ShellDavis27851 If this is a national security threat, shouldn't President Trump just fund TDS and the Coast Guard?

@PressSec Too bad Republicans aren’t in the majority right now. They could use their overwhelming power to do something about this. 🧐

@PressSec And we hear the other side talk about affordability? How about survival? Think Somalians worry like this? It feels like the 11/24 momentum the President had is slipping away…. I love what we’re doing, but not fast enough… We need ACTION!

@PressSec @Bennyshades The Democrats are not empower you fucking retard. Learn how to govern.

@PressSec DEMS offered easy solutions favored by the vast majority of Americans …& Trump said NO.

@PressSec Here's what they're really saying: government workers only matter when their absence inconveniences people who matter. The other 316,999 federal jobs they cut? They were just overhead.

@PressSec This is exactly what the left is aiming for. Senate is broken and could care less about the people or the safety of Americans. We see this clearly and plan to vote accordingly.

@PressSec Are Congress and Senate still receiving paychecks during the shutdown?

@PressSec They called federal workers parasites right up until they needed someone to wave them through security. Then, magically, those parasites became heroes. The uniform didn't change. The politics did.

@PressSec That father can thank the lying republicans, karoline leavitt.

@PressSec Ok demonrats, how long will you hold out from America, TSA for protecting our skies, coast guard for protecting our seas, and fema for helping our storm ravaged Americans on land!! You demonrats are absolutely despicable. New movie out, Despicable 2026, the Demonrats!!

@PressSec Nowadays, whenever the Democratic Party has any bill that they do not agree with, they will stage a shutdown to protest. I think it's like treating this job as a game. I think there needs to be a complete internal clean-up. Only in this way can the operation within