Posted on 02/22/2015 11:23:15 AM PST by Jim Robinson
As Congress comes back into session this week the issue that is looming over them is the budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Back in December Republicans agreed to fund the government through the end of this fiscal year except for DHS. The DHS budget was only funded through the end of February so that Republicans could use its funding as leverage to block President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Even though a federal district court has temporarily blocked implementation of the executive amnesty, Republicans should stand firm and refuse to pass a DHS spending bill without strong language to stop the agency from legalizing millions of immigrants.
Back in the fall of 2013 House Republicans stood up to Democrats on the budget leading to a brief government shutdown. Not only did the world not end, but hardly anybody even noticed a change. About the only visible economic damage was caused by the National Park Service closing parks, causing economic losses for nearby businesses who depending on a steady flow of tourists. However, even in that case the people who did not spend money at or near a national park simply spent it somewhere else and no harm was done to the national economy.
In that most recent government shutdown, DHS only sent home 31,295 employees out of their 231,000 total. In simple terms, 87 percent of DHS employees kept right on working thanks to being classified as essential, while only 13 percent were sent home. There is an argument to be made that we need legislation so that agencies without Congressional authorization should actually stop operating (and probably a law to get rid of non-essential government employees), but under current law the reality is that a shutdown will have no noticeable effect on the important duties...
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it will also do less harm to our national security!
Rogue agency from the start.
If it gets rid of TSA, I’m all for it.
Scrap the whole thing. It would take guts, but I wish a senator or Congressman would come forward with a bill to abolish the DHS.
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