U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman admits DHS funding ‘being held up by Democrats in the Senate’

A Democratic Ohio congressman has admitted that funding for the Department of Homeland Security is “being held up by Democrats in the Senate,” even though he has repeatedly voted to hold DHS funding hostage.

The U.S. House voted Jan. 22 to advance H.R. 7147, a DHS funding measure, but it stalled in the U.S. Senate. The House voted a second time earlier this month to advance the funding plan, sending it to the Senate again.

Amid the Democrat-led shutdown, the feds said more than 100,000 workers at FEMA, TSA, CISA, and the Coast Guard are working without pay. The TSA said that more than 300 of its employees have quit rather than work without pay. However, in the clip, Landsman said that “DHS has enough money.”

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Democrat U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman admits the Homeland Security budget is "being held up by Democrats in the Senate."

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“So a couple of things,” U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, said in the clip from Jamila Bell’s Jan. 28 podcast. “One is, there’s the DHS funding bill — that’s the Department of Homeland Security. And most of us on the Democratic side voted against it last week in the House. It’s now being held up by Democrats in the Senate, though the rest of the budget bill should pass.

“And hopefully that’s what Republicans allow, is for all of the other government funding pieces to pass so that we can just have a debate and an argument/fight over DHS,” Landsman added. “And even if we … hold that budget bill [and] don’t pass it, DHS has enough money. But I think it’s really important for us to hold it until they, you know, not just pursue but implement sweeping reforms.”

On Friday, tens of thousands of TSA agents missed their first full paycheck, and travelers nationwide are blaming the partial federal government shutdown for causing travel chaos, including hours-long airport security lines. Meanwhile, the country has witnessed a series of terrorist attacks, including in Michigan, New York, Texas, and Virginia.

“TSA agents and essential workers at FEMA, CISA, and the Coast Guard can thank Greg Landsman for holding their paychecks hostage,” RNC Spokesman Hunter Lovell told Ohio.News in a statement. “It’s hypocritical and reckless to play politics with the men and women who keep our country safe just for Landsman to appease his radical far-left base.”