Rosemary Jenks

So even though there's all this money for new officers and agents, you can't pay the current ones.

We don't have the funding in the Department of Homeland Security to pay the current operating costs.

So every Border Patrol agent, every ICE agent who was on the job for the last however many years is not going to get paid if the Department of Homeland Security shuts down on Friday.

Yeah, I mean, well, first of all, you can read the actual One Big Beautiful Bill and you see that every line of funding is dedicated to a specific purpose.

So detention beds, new ICE officers, new Border Patrol officers, new equipment.

So that means that if the Department of Homeland Security is defunded as of Friday night, then

then if you're an ICE officer who has worked there for 20 years, you're not going to get paid.

If you're one of the new ICE officers who has been hired on the money of the One Big Beautiful Bill, there's money there for you.

But standard operations that were ongoing when that bill passed are not going to be funded with a couple of exceptions like detention beds because that money is more fungible.

So they're...

There is a possibility of repurposing some of the money, but most of it cannot be.

Well, I would say do something that may be a little bit uncomfortable and call Democrat senators and tell them that you want the Department of Homeland Security funded.

You want immigration enforcement intact because Schumer and Jeffries are blaming Americans.

They're saying that they are doing what Americans want them to do.

Let's make sure they know Americans do not want this.

They do not want FEMA and Coast Guard

and TSA and ICE and CBP defunded.

Let's get that done.

Let's also pass the SAVE Act.

Tell your senators, your Republican senators that it's time to, at the very least, go to the talking filibuster and move the SAVE America Act after the House passes it on Wednesday.