The United States saw four terror attacks on its soil in just the two weeks since the Iran war began, yet Democrats voted yet again last week to #Defund Homeland Security.
Are they trying to help the terrorists?
They also seem to hate TSA workers and flight passengers: Chaos has reigned at airports around the nation, with hours-long security lines; the shutdown has prompted 300 agents to quit and others to take unscheduled leaves rather than work without pay.
The defunding’s latest horror: The Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Bombing Prevention just canceled a training class on how to handle IEDs.
The OBP had to do that even though Islamic terrorists tossed two of those very devices near Gracie Mansion just days before.
Not to mention the terrorist who drove a truck filled with flammable liquids and fireworks into a Michigan synagogue packed with kids.
The OBP is operating with only six of its 18 instructors. Brilliant.
Actually, it’s unthinkable: Airport misery and flight safety are bad enough, but defunding bomb prevention — at a time like this?
Dems are holding the nation’s security and air travel hostage in a purely symbolic protest to prove their hatred of ICE to their base.
The funding cutoff doesn’t even hit ICE, which already got ample cash in last year’s Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Yet the donkeys just won’t budge, even as the pain — and risks — mount.
No matter that they’re dumping on some of the very people (unionized TSA workers) Democrats claim to champion.
Massive security lines have plagued airports in Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, Austin and more; the TSA absence rate at some airports has been crippling: Houston’s Hobby Airport had 53% of its TSA officers call out March 8 and 47% the next day.
New York’s JFK saw 21% of its TSA staff call in sick over the past month.
Storms are adding to the nightmares, with more than 8,000 flight delays and 3,800 cancellations Monday within, into or out of the country, per FlightAware.
None of that stopped 46 Senate Dems from killing a stopgap funding bill for DHS last week — using the filibuster to prevent a floor vote that would pass it.
It’s well past time for Democrats to end the games and think about everyday Americans for a change.
If they don’t, Americans who want protection from terror and sanity at airports should remember them when they vote in November.
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