WASHINGTON - White House. While radical left-wing Democrats force the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into a shutdown that has lasted 36 days, ordinary Americans are bearing the cost. More than 100,000 DHS employees - including 50,000 TSA officers - are working without pay for the third time in six months, leading to a spike in resignations and massive layoffs that have paralyzed airports across the country.

Americans are suffering as a result of the Democrats' continued refusal to fund DHS:

„I feel sorry for those workers ... They need to get paid!“ said passengers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where hour-long lines stretched down the concourse after more than a third of TSA screeners checked out to help.

„We were going to go at 11, but the flight was moved to 4:30 ... We got here three and a half hours early,“ said a frustrated passenger at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where lines stretched to the next floor down due to lack of staff.

„Unreal. The longest (TSA line) I've ever been in - and I travel every week,“ said a passenger at New York's LaGuardia Airport, where the TSA pre-check line stretched all the way to the parking structure.

„It's so overwhelming ... The TSA line was out the door around the building,“ said a passenger at Philadelphia International Airport, where major checkpoints were closed due to persistent staffing shortages.

The damage caused by the Democrats extends far beyond airports. Key DHS missions - including law enforcement operations, FEMA disaster response, cybersecurity protection, and other key functions - are burdened by unpaid staff, limited resources, and dangerous staffing shortages.

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly negotiated in good faith - yet Democrats continue to hold DHS hostage and insist on radical, unserious demands that protect undocumented immigrants at the expense of American citizens and frontline workers. Enough is enough. Radical-left Democrats - who have boasted about „causing people harm“ - must immediately stop their partisan games, stop using national security as a weapon for political gain, and join Republicans in approving full funding for DHS.

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