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Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Sunday urged lawmakers to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pay its employees, which has been in a shutdown for over a month.
Johnson, who served under former President Obama, said in an appearance on the “Cats Roundtable” radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM that no one can tell employees to work “except for the United States government.”
“We’ve got to stop with these funding fights,” he continued. “It used to be annual. Now it’s occurring several times a year, and I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse unless somebody, through strong leadership, intervenes and says, ‘Stop the madness.’ And you can’t punish the workers, it’s not their fault.”
Senate Democrats have held firm in not approving funding toward DHS. They and their House colleagues have arged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a DHS sub-agency, needs to be reformed following its rollout of President Trump’s deportation agenda and tactics used in detaining undocumented immigrants and American citizens.
Calls for reform intensified after two U.S. citizens were killed during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis in January.
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