While Chuck Schumer and his Democratic colleagues play political games with national security, as reported by The Hill, President Trump is once again the only adult in the room. After 41 days of partial shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, airports across America have turned into nightmare scenarios with hour-long security lines and frustrated travelers missing flights, according to major news outlets like CNN and Fox News. The cause? Democrats refuse to fund DHS unless they can dictate how ICE conducts deportations, a stance Schumer has publicly defended in Senate floor speeches. So Trump did what he always does when the left puts politics ahead of people; he found another way.
The President announced Thursday that he will sign an executive order directing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to immediately pay TSA agents, bypassing the legislative logjam that Schumer has engineered, as Trump posted on Truth Social. “I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports,” Trump posted on Truth Social. It’s not an easy maneuver constitutionally, but when the alternative is letting American travelers suffer while Democrats protect criminal illegal aliens, the choice is obvious, as Trump has argued in his public statements.
Let’s be clear about what’s actually happening here. The Democrats are blocking DHS funding because they want to strip ICE of its ability to remove illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, according to Republican lawmakers quoted in The Hill. They’re siding with people who entered this country illegally, many from prisons and mental institutions, over the hardworking TSA agents who keep our skies safe and the millions of Americans who depend on air travel for their livelihoods. Trump laid it out plainly, accusing Democrats of allowing 25 million people to enter from “Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers,” in his Truth Social posts; is he exaggerating? Maybe the numbers are debatable, but the underlying truth isn’t, as border patrol data from the Department of Homeland Security shows increased illegal crossings.
The Senate was set to vote Thursday on a wider DHS funding bill, but passage remains uncertain, with GOP sources telling The Hill they expect the White House to take action if Democrats refuse to accept concessions that would prevent funding from being diverted to ICE removal operations. Think about that for a second. Democrats are so committed to protecting illegal immigrants that they’d rather shut down TSA operations than let ICE do its job, as evidenced by Schumer’s recent statements. The same party that claims to care about working Americans is perfectly happy to see those same Americans miss flights, lose business deals, and suffer travel nightmares.
Trump thanked the hardworking TSA agents and ICE officers who have continued doing their jobs despite the chaos, in his Truth Social update. These are the people Democrats have forgotten in their rush to appease the open-borders wing of their party. While Schumer grandstands in the Senate, real Americans are paying the price. The President’s executive order won’t solve everything, but it will keep security lines moving and paychecks flowing while Democrats figure out whether they work for American citizens or illegal immigrants. That shouldn’t be a difficult choice, but apparently it is.
Providence watches over the bold.
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