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Democrats are explicitly opposed to a clean DHS funding bill with no changes.

As they should be. I don’t want to fund DHS and I’m happy my reps are doing their job to keep it shut down. Funding TSA specifically is acceptable and has in fact been voted down in the senate by republicans several times now.

Why do you oppose FEMA funding?

What’s left of FEMA? Anyway their disaster response is not impacted by the lapse in funding. They’re currently on the ground doing something or other in Hawaii.

This is completely incorrect. FEMA has ceased public assistance for ongoing and historical disasters.

You should let FEMA and the state of Hawaii know then. They must be really fucking confused. Thanks 0xy for bringing the knowledge.

https://www.khon2.com/kona-low/governor-green-kona-low/amp/

Did you read the post you replied to? I very clearly stated ongoing and historical disasters. Meaning disasters that started before the DHS shutdown and were still ongoing, not new disasters.

FEMA does not and should not be a part of DHS. Good try though.

Wrong.

https://www.fema.gov/about

I drop the word need there.

But yes putting it as part of DHS was a mistake and mistakes can be fixed.

This is straight up untrue. There are clean bill proposals to fund TSA that Republicans have rejected. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-the-proposed-tsa-fundin...

Their bills are the clean bills. Yesterday's vote was a simple yea or nay for TSA funding. The Republicans voted against it.

The GOP refuses to fund the TSA without tying a whole bunch of other fascist shit to it. This crisis is manufactured.

> They aren't clean bills, so this is absolutely irrelevant.

I mean its not really irrelevant, its a calculated move from both sides.

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