Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California went on CNBC to clarify the Republican-driven government shutdown to host Joe Kernen. When the Trump-friendly host tried to push a GOP speaking level blaming Democrats, Schiff shut him down with a dose of actuality.
“I don’t want to hold up the rest of what [Department of Homeland Security] does,” Schiff said, reminding him that the GOP has refused to cross broadly supported funding. “I think we’ve had 10 votes to fund [Transportation Security Administration].”
“It’s a carve-out,” Kernen interjected. “It’s not a clean DHS funding bill—which has been the business as usual for the way it’s usually done.”
“The business as usual right now is people getting killed in the streets,” Schiff responded. “So I’m not for that ‘business as usual.’”
Negotiations are at a standstill over accountability measures for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol as the results of President Donald Trump’s pigheadedness and Republicans’ withering cowardice. At the identical time, funding delays have led to TSA brokers quitting their jobs or not displaying up for unpaid work, resulting in critical delays at airports throughout the nation.
Schiff and different Democrats have proposed a compromise to partially fund the federal government for weeks now—one that’s being rebranded and claimed by Republicans making an attempt to save lots of face forward of this 12 months’s midterm elections.