Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson said Democrats bicker over Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in airports but won’t come forward to work on funding the Department of Homeland Security to bring Transportation Security Administration workers back on the job.
“Democrats shut this down more than a month ago. And if they’re all offended and clutching their pearls about ICE agents being in airports, I would humbly submit that they fund the DHS,” Benson said on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier on Monday. “And then TSA agents can come back to work; they can get paid along with some of these other workers that have been going without paychecks.”
Benson slammed Democrats for starting an act just to protest ICE, even though the agency is fully funded and its officers are getting paid. TSA agents are still waiting to come back to work.
He said that TSA agents bear the brunt of the issue “because of the shutdown that Democrats have orchestrated to protest ICE, even though ICE is funded and getting paid. It’s a giant political show. It’s dangerous. It’s inconvenient.”
Benson emphasized that if Democrats are gung-ho on booting ICE out of airports, there needs to be an effort to come to the table and compromise rather than blaming Republicans and Trump.
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Still, rising anxiety from both sides could put pressure on a solution in the coming days.
“I think there’s enough consternation, yes, on both sides,” Benson said.
