WATCH:Chuck Schumer Blames Republicans for Blocking TSA Funding
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday to deliver a message that perfectly captures Washington dysfunction: blame Republicans for a crisis created by his own party.
In a speech riddled with deflection, Schumer claimed Republicans areblockingfunding for TSA, leaving airport workers unpaid and Americans stranded in chaos.
The facts tell a very different story.
At the center of this partial government shutdown is one simple reality: Democrats arerefusingto fund ICE, a core component of the Department of Homeland Security.
Rather than negotiate in good faith, they have chosen to hold the entire DHS budget hostage—jeopardizing not only ICE operations, but also TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and other critical national security agencies.
Schumer attempted to isolate TSA funding, arguing that Republicans are tying it to ICE funding and are therefore responsible for the disruption.
“If you want to open up TSA, vote yes tomorrow… Republicans are saying, unless you pass ICE as is… we’re not going to help TSA workers get paid.”
That framing is intentionally misleading. DHS is not a collection of unrelated agencies that can be funded selectively without consequence. It is an integrated national security apparatus.
Republicans have insisted on maintaining full operational funding for DHS, including ICE, because border enforcement and internal security cannot be separated without weakening both.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
