DEMs need to drop their Anti-ICE stance and fund DHS now

Trump isn't acting in good faith by NOT declaring martial law. 3 terrorist attacks in less than one week.

You have pure obstructionists who have decided their party is more important than the safety of the same people they got elected by.

Do the needful Mr. President.

quote:

---

Or what?

---

Or... the Dems will be to blame for growing frustration with airport lines
Or... if the lack of TSA ends up allowing a terrorist onto a plane, the Dems will get the blame (which has the downside of people possibly dying due to nothing more than Congressional Dems having no real platform other than OMB)

quote:

---

Do the needful Mr. President

---

There are very few plausible scenarios in which i would openly advocate for martial law.

quote:

---

3 terrorist attacks in less than one week

---

Chicago surpasses that in an average weekend. Doesn't mean i want the President locking the whole nation down and sticking draconian curfews, checkpoints and rationing on us all.

The solution is simple: Dims stand up and agree to fund the government. But they won't. Why? Because they want something terrible to happen and they want Trump to declare martial law so they can keep calling him LiTeRaLLy HiTLeR.

quote:

---

Chicago surpasses that in an average weekend.

---

Those aren't terrorist attacks though my brother.

When is "enough" terrorist attacks enough? 3? 80? 14? He's clearly not getting the support from his petulant Congress, but that doesn't shield him from the responsibility of taking care of his citizens.

Hopefully common sense prevails but the left would burn the country down before giving him a win. F them.

quote:

---

ICE and Border Patrol are VERY important to Homeland Security.

---

ICE and Border Patrol are both fully funded through the OBBB. Its most of the rest of the DHS components that are left unfunded (USSS, TSA, FEMA, etc.)

And if we're being honest, the idea with TSA was always that it would be fee funded. The thinking at the time was that the folks who don't travel shouldn't have to cover the cost of those that do. If you bought a plane ticket, you'd be assessed a fee that would cover the cost of the screening/salaries of the TSOs and that's how it works today. The problem is that as the threats to aviation evolved and became more expensive, the airline lobby parked them squarely in the way of any rate increases to cover the cost of more advanced screening technology. They haven't even adjusted for inflation. Say what you will about the airlines, they've got some damn good lobbyists.

So, to cover the delta in fee collection, congress has to appropriate it now...which they aren't currently doing. Fees don't even cover 1/3 of what it costs.