Posted on 02/15/2015 4:33:29 PM PST by cotton1706
Hard-line House GOP conservatives aren’t worried about a looming Department of Homeland Security shutdown as the deadline for congressional action draws near.
Many of the conservative lawmakers who most want to aggressively challenge President Obama's executive actions on immigration think that if push comes to shove, a shutdown will be worth the fight.
And at this point, they don't think there will be any electoral consequences if there is a shutdown.
"I'm just not that scared of sticking to principles and filling campaign promises that we made back home, irrespective of what leadership tells us to do here," said Rep. Curt Clawson (R-Fla.).
"It's worth having this fight," said Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).
Gone are assurances from Republican lawmakers that there won't be a shutdown later this month.
Most DHS employees are considered "essential," meaning that workers like border patrol agents and Transportation Security Administration employees would remain on the job, albeit without pay. So in the eyes of some lawmakers, a DHS shutdown wouldn't have as much impact as the government-wide shutdown in 2013.
"The shutdown would be extremely limited. It would be only in one department, with only a small percentage of people in that one department. But again, nobody has a goal here of shutting anything down. The goal here is to get the president to get right with the Constitution that he swore an oath to uphold," said Rep. John Fleming (R-La.).
Of course, many Republicans in the House and Senate think allowing DHS to shut down would be a bad idea.
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DHS is NOT essential, well except maybe for providing logistic support to illegal aliens, but beyond that they serve no function whatsoever.
Shut it down and leave it that way.
DHS was a mistake from the beginning.
DHS includes the Coast Guard.
It is run by appointed muslims
I was told recently about a guy that works with Homeland Security and his job is to hunt feral hogs. That’s right, hunt feral hogs.
I understand the guy is a good ole boy that enjoys hunting. This is his dream job. He gets paid doing what he loves to do — hunt. He carries a AK47 to shoot the hogs.
Unreal what DHS has evolved into. They’re involved with weather forecasting and so many other things they shouldn’t be involved.
It can un-include it then.
Coast Guard has been around for a long time, long before this abusive department.
I’ve got nothing against hunting feral hogs. They canget out of hand real quick.
That is also something that states can do.
shut the whole government down. like it wouldn’t hurt America anymore that it has with keeping it open. Just maybe some money would be saved.
I disagree with you and strongly believe DHS is essential. That is why the employees will remain on the job and thus, the department really is not going to be shut down.
Having said that, it is my opinion that, unlike the partial shutdown of the entire government a couple of Octobers ago, I support the withholding of some of the funding for DHS as DHS will remain operational and most of the public will care less. I think the GOP can win this political battle.
The Coast Guard used to be under the Department of the Treasury.
And the absolutely essential feral hog eradication program (see post above) should be under Department of the Interior.
Maybe so but not DHS. DHS was established to bring CIA, FBI, and other agencies together to protect us against terrorists.
You want to shut down all of the air traffic controls, the military, the coast guard, federal police agencies etc.? Seriously? You seriously want to shut the military etc. down?
"This strategy was never designed to succeed. Everybody knows that. So now we have to face the reality and do what the American public sent us here to do, which is to govern and fund the Homeland Security department," Dent told The Hill.
So Charlie Dent admits to being a liar.
The fed employees want a government shut down...It's like yet another additional tax paid vacation for government employees...
A win win...
Let me know if they have John Belushi and Gilda Radner live - I’ll turn it on for that.
What Dept of DHS is essential? There is more fat and fraud in DHS then in almost any other Gov agency, but; all are very sad these days.
Sorry about that - posted to the wrong thread
Shut down the military?
Get real....
I’ll tell ya want needs to happen, the corrupt government needs to be dramatically reduced in size and scope and this should have occurred decades ago. It should have never been allowed to expand into the all encompassing all controlling monster which is what we have today.
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