On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson discussed the government shutdown and said, “I’m going to break from the party line here on this. I’m a Democrat. I’m with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Sen. Angus King (I-ME).” And urged Democrats to vote to re-open the government or else there will be a precedent where keeping the government open is linked to something else.
Johnson said, “Ten years ago, Republicans wanted to shut down DHS over immigration, and the motivation for me was a worker — a lot of these people do live paycheck to paycheck — a TSA worker from West Orange, New Jersey came to me and said, Mr. Secretary, I have stage four cancer. I need my
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