On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) responded to a question on a DHS shutdown hurting the Coast Guard, FEMA, and the TSA instead of ICE and CBP by saying Republicans are “going to be the ones that aren’t funding the Coast Guard. They’re the ones that are going to be impacting TSA folks, because all they have to do is say yes to commonsense proposals.”
Host Katy Tur asked, “What about the argument that, ultimately, what you’re doing is not defunding or removing funding really from ICE or CBP — they already have a ton, more than they could possibly use — what you’re ultimately doing is hurting the Coast Guard, hurting FEMA, hurting the TSA?”
Peters answered, “Well, hopefully we can separate that. Those will be negotiations going forward. We should not be in a situation where TSA doesn’t have the resources that they need, FEMA employees are going to be working without pay. We’ve got some time before those paystubs come in, but that should not happen. But we’ve got to realize that this is all in the hands of the Republicans right now. They control the White House. They control the Congress. … They’re going to be the ones that aren’t funding the Coast Guard. They’re the ones that are going to be impacting TSA folks, because all they have to do is say yes to commonsense proposals.”
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