“Democrats shut this down more than a month ago. And if they’re all offended and clutching their pearls about ICE agents being in airports, I would humbly submit that they fund the DHS,” Benson said on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier on Monday. “And then TSA agents can come back to work; they can get paid along with some of these other workers that have been going without paychecks.”
Benson slammed Democrats for starting an act just to protest ICE, even though the agency is fully funded and its officers are getting paid. TSA agents are still waiting to come back to work.
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He said that TSA agents bear the brunt of the issue “because of the shutdown that Democrats have orchestrated to protest ICE, even though ICE is funded and getting paid. It’s a giant political show. It’s dangerous. It’s inconvenient.”
Benson emphasized that if Democrats are
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