"So Kristen, as you know, we offered vote after vote, resolution after resolution, even as recently as this week to reopen those agencies, to fund them, and the Republicans voted it down. We said, Let's wall off ICE funding. Let's fund these other agencies that protect the country, and the Republicans, one after another, voted them down."
"Voted down funding TSA, voted down funding the Coast Guard, voted down funding FEMA. So Republicans are controlling both houses and the presidency. They can't very well blame the minority party for their own inability to govern, particularly when they're voting down Democratic motions to reopen these agencies."
During Sunday news programs, journalists questioned why Democrats had not voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid a partial government shutdown lasting a month. NBC's Kristen Welker and CNN's Jake Tapper posed this question to Democratic senators Adam Schiff and Cory Booker respectively, citing recent suspected terror attacks in Michigan and Virginia as context. Welker also referenced airline and cargo carrier CEOs urging Congress to end the shutdown for national security. Senator Schiff responded by stating Democrats had repeatedly offered resolutions to reopen agencies and fund DHS, TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA, but Republicans voted down each proposal. Schiff emphasized that Republicans control both houses and the presidency, making them responsible for the shutdown rather than the minority Democratic party.
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