White House border czar Tom Homan expressed uncertainty Sunday at whether federal immigration officers will leave airports once Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees receive their delayed paychecks.
"We'll see. It depends [on] how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plans [on] coming back to work," he told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." |
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday did not rule out running for president in 2028, the next chance Democrats have to take the White House.
In an interview on NBC News's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, the outlet's Kristen Welker asked Booker about his new wife and her comfort with him making a presidential bid. |
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Sunday that some senators "expressed buyer's remorse" over a Senate bill to fund only part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amid a shutdown of the department.
"Well, we actually read their bill and, frankly, a number of senators have expressed buyer's remorse with what they did at three in the morning. So, we looked at it," Scalise told ABC News's Jonathan Karl on "This Week." |
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Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) leadership, but noted that the congressional caucus is "united" amid negotiations on funding the Department of Homeland Security.
When host Jake Tapper asked Kim on CNN's "State of the Union" whether he wanted Schumer to remain in his role, the New Jersey Democrat replied, "Well, look, I am confident that Democrats are strongest when we are united." |
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Sunday that Senate Majority leader John Thune has become a "thorn in the side" of her party, after House GOP leadership rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
"We're not the problem. It's the left that's a problem," Mace said on CNN's "State of the Union," referring to her conference.
"And now Senator Thune has become a problem and a thorn in the side of the Republican Party. And it's become a national problem," she added. |
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Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) said Sunday that if the Senate-backed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reached the House floor, it would pass.
"What we know is that we have a bill that passed the Senate unanimously, a bipartisan piece of legislation that sits over at the House of Representatives. If that bill went for a vote on the floor of House of Representatives, it would pass," Kim told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union." |
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Sunday pushed for federal workers to be paid following recent tensions over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Congress.
"We, by the way, I've got a bill that ends government shutdowns forever. You and I have talked about it before, this is a bipartisan bill, I believe we have enough support in the Senate right now, we want to move this to the House, but I believe that we should never leave Washington, D.C., until everything is funded." Lankford told NBC News's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press. |
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Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said Sunday that the American people are paying the price of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on multiple fronts.
"There's a reason why Donald Trump is not coming before the American people for approval for this war," Kim told host Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union." |
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday criticized President Trump over paying Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown.
"I just want to continue to emphasize that we are seeing a colossal failure in presidential leadership. Because this president has said, again, 'I have the power to pay TSA agents, and I'm going to do that," Booker told NBC News's Kristen Welker. |
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Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that Congress has grown too accustomed to shutting down the government as leverage to pass legislation, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains unfunded. "We have gotten too used to using shutdowns as a mechanism of getting what we want legislatively," the Connecticut Democrat told host Margaret Brennan on CBS's "Face the Nation." |
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Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Sunday said immigration policy could have been "more secure" during the Biden administration while weighing in on lawmakers' current impasse on reform at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "The Biden administration did not do immigration enforcement the way it should have. We should have the border more secure than it was," Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said during an appearance on Fox News's "Fox News Sunday." |
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