The House and Senate are out this week, but return next week. Parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are experiencing a lapse in funding, as a result of liberals in the Senate who are seeing this as an opportunity to try and extract policy changes to ICE and CBP.
Due to the sensitive nature of DHS, many of the department’s 260,000 employees are “essential”. This functionally means that many of the employees will work through the shutdown and could miss paychecks if the department continues to go unfunded through February 27th, which is their next scheduled pay date. Pressure points in Washington usually cause action and with much of the agency staff expected to work through the lapse in funding, many are wondering how long it will take to get funding across the line.
Additionally, this week, we sat down with Tom Jones, who is the President of the American Accountability Foundation (AAF). AAF’s website says this about AAF’s work: “For too long conservatives have allowed DC bureaucrats and leftist organizations to subvert, obstruct, and sabotage the America First Agenda. American Accountability Foundation deploys aggressive research and investigations to expose and neutralize these efforts.” Specifically, AAF recently released an investigative report titled, “Chinese Scientist Infiltration Threat Assessments” that details the CCPs use of J-1 visas to infiltrate the university system and work on sensitive projects. We discuss this and more in this week’s episode.
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- The Federalist: What the Wall Street Journal Gets Wrong About the Talking Filibuster
- Chronicles: Rubio’s Call for Europe to Renew the West Falls on Deaf Ears
- American Moment Podcast: Immigration and Dystopia