On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) responded to polling data showing that voters say that Democrats don’t do anything by saying that “I would actually point to what we have been able to do.” And
On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) said that “we held out” on funding all of DHS “because reforming ICE was extremely important to every American.” And stated that we’re still in a situation
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that the DHS shutdown is on Republicans, and when it came to legislation to fund DHS, “We held it up” to try to make changes
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to questions on what the DHS shutdown accomplished by blaming Republicans and saying that “what we have shown the American people is, we want obvious,
The ICE officers Sen. Jon Ossoff previously derided are now assisting short-staffed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as the partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown continues to disrupt travel.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Beat,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said that the DHS shutdown is the fault of Republicans while also stating that “We need to get the Department of Homeland Security reopened, in
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) discussed the DHS shutdown and said that it appears as though Republicans “will have to do the heavy lift on our
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said that he likely would accept a compromise to support a bill to fund everything in DHS but ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Roy said,
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) stated that trying to resolve the DHS shutdown through budget reconciliation is “dangerous” “because we’re now pulling out of the normal appropriations process, this funding for
On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said that he was “disappointed” that the House didn’t take up the Senate’s proposal on Department of Homeland Security funding and said that “at this point, I think, because
During an interview with ABC News on Monday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that, in the battle over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, Democrats have pushed to “keep ICE out of our airports, and don’t fund this reckless
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) responded to a question on what Democrats have gotten out of the DHS shutdown by saying that “the ICE issue is certainly prominent in a way that
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) blamed the DHS shutdown on Republicans and also stated that Democrats are firm that “we’re not going to send another nickel to ICE and CBP.” Co-host Symone Sanders
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) argued that, on the DHS shutdown, “Nothing is won until each and every one of those workers [is] getting their money, caught up on their bills, including those with
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) said that getting DHS funded aside from ICE and CBP is “not enough” for him because he wants “more restrictions” on ICE. Co-host Erica Hill asked, “[W]hat do you
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) said that the changes to ICE and CBP that Democrats want “might be like the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, that we have to take it to the
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said that a proposal from Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) to put limits on ICE while funding DHS isn’t good enough because “we can look separately
On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump “won’t pay the people who are keeping us safe because he wants to fund his own domestic terror unit,”
On Thursday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) discussed DHS funding and said that regardless of how the current impasse is resolved, Republicans will need to pass a reconciliation bill and fund “parts of DHS well into the
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) stated that Democrats will not vote to fund ICE “unless the American people are safe, and, under the current circumstances, they are not safe with ICE operating as it
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) talked about his proposal with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) to end the DHS shutdown and responded to claims that House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) isn’t a big fan
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) argued that the White House is “choosing chaos again by refusing to make a deal with Democrats that gets these TSA workers paid. That’s a question of priorities.”
On Thursday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) said that the DHS shutdown is “because the Trump administration sent an army of masked ICE agents into American neighborhoods, terrorizing people, banging down people’s doors without warrants, shooting American citizens
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) said that Democrats have remained united throughout the DHS shutdown and haven’t had a group say that they’ll just pass something to end the shutdown “because it’s clear that
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said Democrats have “never” had leverage in the DHS shutdown and “we knew going into it that shutdown of DHS would have zero impact on forcing any kinds of changes at
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has “just been pushing for a very, very hard agreement” on the DHS shutdown but, “I disagree, at the moment,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that what people are getting out of the DHS shutdown “is that Donald Trump refuses to fund the Coast Guard or TSA or any of the other functions
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Will Cain Show,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said that the current battle over DHS funding is different from what Democrats have criticized in the past because “You have ICE and CBP murdering
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said that Democrats “share the concern about TSA that’s not being paid.” But also, “Democrats have been very solid in the Senate on the need to have
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) responded to a question on whether he’ll vote in favor of a reconciliation bill to end the DHS shutdown by saying that he won’t be part
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that Democrats are trying “to make the point that ICE is out of control” with the DHS shutdown. Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “Another thing that your colleagues that
On Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Congressional Correspondent Lisa Desjardins said that the airport lines “are actually making it more difficult to reach a solution” to the DHS shutdown and stated that Democrats see polls showing more people blame Republicans for problems at airports than blame Democrats, even though, “Usually, the party that starts the shutdown, in this case, Democrats sparked it, gets the blame.” While President Donald Trump views sending ICE agents to airports as the answer.
On Monday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) blamed the DHS shutdown on Republicans and also said Democrats are “fighting and we’ll continue to fight the good fight until we get across that finish line
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said that he fears the DHS shutdown “is doing irreparable harm” to the TSA and “The object of the fight that Democrats are putting up resistance over, CBP
On Monday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) said that Democrats should look to cut a deal on DHS funding, and “It is politically difficult for us to support ICE, just given how reckless they’ve been over the
On Saturday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that Republicans want to shut down DHS and “we don’t want to give a penny more to ICE. That’s our position, because ICE has become secret police”
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) said that Democrats rejected the White House offer on the DHS shutdown and that people will face “four-hour waits at TSA lines because of Donald Trump and the Republicans’
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that the situation around the DHS shutdown is getting more dangerous, “And we may have to accept the fact that the Republicans are refusing to do anything meaningful” on
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX) discussed the DHS shutdown and blamed Republicans for TSA and other parts of DHS being shutdown and said she “would love to see the situation resolved, but we have
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that he can support funding everything in DHS but ICE, but what would happen next is Republicans will pass a bill through reconciliation to fund ICE without Democratic votes.
