The Senate has once again voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security. Per The Hill, this ongoing stalemate has former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson urging lawmakers to finally fund the department and pay its employees, who have now been working for over a month without a paycheck.
Johnson, who served under Obama, said that only the U.S. government can tell employees to work. “We’ve got to stop with these funding fights,” Johnson explained. “It used to be annual. Now it’s occurring several times a year, and I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse unless somebody, through strong leadership, intervenes and says, ‘Stop the madness.’ And you can’t punish the workers, it’s not their fault.”
