Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) recently admitted that he and Sen. Ted Cruz created a solution to end the long shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Donald Trump blocked it because he refused to accept any deal with Democrats.
Kennedy explained, “Sen. Cruz and I came up with a plan.
We said, let’s look at it as a two-step process. The Democrats offered to open everything except ICE. Ted and I thought, ‘Okay, let’s take their offer.’
At the same time, we would introduce a reconciliation bill that wouldn’t need any Democratic support to handle ICE.
This way, the shutdown would end, and DHS would be back in operation.
‘That plan would have worked.
We could have had TSA workers paid by the end of the week. But the President said no deal.'”
The outcome?
TSA agents are still unpaid, more than 400 have left their jobs, airport lines are long, travelers are upset, and Trump is holding the whole system hostage because he prefers to gain political points rather than fix the problem.
Democrats have offered funding just for TSA eight times, but Republicans have stopped each time.
The shutdown continues as Trump insists on total agreement with his SAVE America Act instead of accepting the solution Cruz and Kennedy provided.
This is Trump’s strategy for the midterms: keep things chaotic, blame Democrats, and hope voters will punish them in November, even if it means hurting American travelers, unpaid government workers, and national security.
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