DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss funding for Homeland Security.
“Funding is back for most of DHS, but not all of it,” Bream said.
“What does it mean, this historic lapse of funding for DHS as far as rebuilding. Are we able to track all the threats that are out there right now?” Bream asked.
“Well, after 76 days of shutdown, which is an historic shutdown, the longest government shutdown in history, it’s going to take some time to recover,” Mullin said.
“Are we able to still be mission capable? Yes. Were we able to pick up everything that was being brought to us? No,” Mullin continued.
Secretary Mullin explained that the shutdown affected DHS’s ability to pay its bills to keep services running. They had to get help from other government agencies.
“We had 500 electric bills throughout just the Coast Guard that was in default and in some cases, we were having to have the State Department and DOW pay the bills,” Mullin explained.
“We were also having a tremendous amount of morale issues, so we had a large turnover,” Mullin said.
“TSA was down 8 percent, which typically we have about a 4.6 percent turnover there,” Mullin continued.
“How do you hire and retain people with that looming over their heads?” Bream asked regarding Rep Bennie Thompson’s comments on another future shutdown.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
