Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief Jeh Johnson is predicting a national security calamity by the end of the month if Congress doesn’t push through funding for the DHS, claiming 30,000 workers will be furloughed.
The budget is being held up over a debate on immigration, and Johnson insists that these “challenging times” mean such debates should not take place at the expense of bankrolling huge government agencies.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D – MD) is predicting attacks by “ghoulish, grim predators” if the DHS doesn’t get its funding by month’s end, and also predicted ports along the eastern seaboard could be shut down.
Despite those claims, the lack of funding would not impact most Americans, and the Coast Guard is the one who handles the ports, so they’re not going anywhere. The only real impact would be some of the DHS employees not getting paid until the situation is resolved.
How would not wasting billions be a calamity?
Just think of the impact on the rubber glove industry.
Shut the Mother F down!
Without a doubt, the most worthless agency ever created by any government on the face of the earth.
They could start by eliminating the 50,000 or so thieves, child molesters, and peeping Toms in TSA, work their way up to Jeh Johnson, and save many billions. The US Republic would be far safer.
Good riddance! Because ya'll have been a threat to our Bill of Rights which trumps your national security state.
I predict that if the DHS is shut down or defunded, we will see a string of highly-publicized attacks on civilian or military targets inside the US, all of which destroy property but curiously cause not a single death or injury, and which leave pristine identification documents of the attackers, all of whom will be characterized as 'Muslim extremists'.