Bill Malusion

The impacts of a five-week DHS shutdown are now on full display.

Several airports around the country.

including in Atlanta and Houston, had two to three hour wait times at security lines.

As TSA remains unpaid, employee call out rates are skyrocketing and leadership says it's likely to get worse.

Congress doesn't seem close to any deal on DHS funding.

But Senate Republicans believe pressure and public opinion is building against Democrats.

Republican Senator Bernie Moreno and Democrat Senator Alyssa Slotkin clashed Thursday with Moreno pitching a two-week bill to fund all of DHS, but Slotkin shot it down, wanting only TSA to be funded.

brewing for a couple months.

It started in Minneapolis with all of the bad headlines that were coming out there every day.

It escalated when Secretary Noem went on TV and called Alex Pretty and Renee Good domestic terrorists.

It escalated further when Tom Homan was brought in to essentially be the shot caller there.

And Noem and Greg Bovino were essentially sidelined.

But then it hit a snowball effect

this week with her testimony here on the Hill.

And we just got some clarity as to what happened with Senator John Kennedy and Noem and the White House earlier this week.

Senator Kennedy just gaggled with reporters here at the Hill a short time ago, and he gave us a bigger picture look at this.

So he said ahead of that hearing, he had heard about this $200 million ad buy that DHS and Secretary Noem did.

Of course, we've seen the ads where she's on horseback, she's featured heavily.

But there were some allegations that maybe there were some cronyism in those contracts.

So Senator Kennedy said that he was offended by the size and scope of that contract.