Beau of The Fifth Column

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Belle of the Ranch · Let's talk about the GOP blocking TSA and DHS funding.... · 15 Mar 2026 podcast

The TSA lines would have disappeared.

the Coast Guard, and so on, all would have been funded.

Senator Gary Peters of Michigan called out the GOP fake outrage and said that Republicans blocking it, quote, would send a very clear signal that they are not interested in opening up TSA at our airports, FEMA for natural disasters, or CESA protecting us from cyber threats.

So, what did Republicans do when they were handed the opportunity to fund all the agencies they said Democrats were blocking funding to?

They blocked it.

They stopped them from getting funding.

Senator Katie Britt of Alabama, who was the Republican who blocked the funding, said, Look, we're not going back to the era of defund police.

We're not doing it.

which is a really weird thing to say while blocking funding for a bunch of agencies, many of which have law enforcement components.

Senator Murray called out the Republican misrepresentations pretty pointedly, saying, Now, some on the other side are claiming that the bill I just offered would defund customs or homeland security investigations.

That, too, is absurd.

All the bill I just offered does is fund the rest of DHS while talks continue on ICE and Border Patrol.

And the simple fact is, Republicans have already funded these agencies when they gave them more money than most militaries, by the way, in their big, ugly bill.

So, after Republicans shot this down, the funding package again fell apart.

It's important to acknowledge that at this point, Republicans are now blocking all DHS funding so they can avoid meeting the incredibly simple and basic requests for reform that have come from the Democratic Party.

I'll put a link below to go over the Democratic Party's requests.

Avoiding those simple requests is why Republicans are willing to let TSA go unfunded and mess up spring break travel and leave CESA and FEMA unfunded.

They had a chance to fund all of these agencies while reforms for immigration-related agencies were negotiated.

They rejected it.

Don't let them lie to you about this.

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