As the "crazy" House Democratic partial government shutdown continues to wreak havoc at airports across the nation with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents entering another week without pay, Florida gubernatorial candidate, Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is calling on House Democrats to "step up and do the right thing" and fund the Homeland Security Department.
In a short social media video taken on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Donalds called the TSA lines at airports "crazy" and blamed Democrats of being solely to blame for shutting down the Department of Homeland Securit.
"It's crazy TSA lines are long everywhere and that's for one reason and one reason only, the Democrats have shut down Homeland Security airline travel is getting backed up and it's simply because the Democrats will not fund Homeland Security, especially with what's going on right now in Iran it's just simply crazy," said Rep. Donalds. "It doesn't make any sense , and so what we were pushing for is that the Department of Homeland Security needs to get funded."
Congressional Democrats want to fund TSA and other government agencies within Homeland Security in a seperate bill. Democrats refuse to support an existing legislative measure that would fund the entire department because the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would also receive funding.
Democrats refuse to fund ICE due to its recent crackdown on illegal aliens across the country.
Donalds continued, saying that Democrats refusing to pay TSA and other government law enforcement agencies is compromising national security.
"We need to make sure that these agents are being paid and not just them our border agents our customs agents they have to be paid as well these are Americans who are working hard every single day and now their families are going without because of petty politics on Capitol Hill, he added. "The Democrats need to step up do the right thing its time to fund the Homeland Security Department, so we can move forward make sure the homeland is secured and make sure that the American people's lives are not being interrupted."
U.S. airports are seeing unprecedented TSA delays, some as long as 4 hours.
