They say most of the Departments employees are considered essential so they would still be working at our borders and screening airline passengers. That may be true. but those employees would not get paid. I am not willing to tell our Border Patrol agents and TSA officers with families to feed that they still need to go to work. but they are not going to get paid because Washington cannot get its act together. I know my constituents would feel a lot more secure in border communities if the Border Patrol officers were getting paid rather than worrying about their mortgages. their car payments. tuition payments. and other household expenses. Despite the Republican claims that DHS will not actually shut down. there would be significant consequences if Congress failed to fund DHS. Consider what would happen to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
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