U.S. Senator Katie Britt Joins The Sunday Briefing on Fox
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined The Sunday Briefing with Peter Doocy on Fox News to discuss the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown and her work to find a pathway forward.
On growing TSA lines and wait times for Americans caused by the Democrat-led DHS shutdown:
“Look, this is just completely unnecessary and unfortunate in so many ways. We have men and women who have stepped up to serve our Department of Homeland Security … and they’re not getting a paycheck. It’s unacceptable. [W]e want our Democratic colleagues to sit down with us and find a pathway forward. And … for the first time since we passed the continuing resolution, Peter, on January 30th, [the] first time they sat down with us was on Thursday.”
On Republicans’ continued commitment to prioritize the safety and security of Americans:
“[W]hen I when I’m looking at what the Democratic Party has become … the far left has taken over. It’s in the driver’s seat of the Democratic Party. We’re seeing that with them paying for protesters in a number of places, but also with the rhetoric … calling ICE officers ‘Nazis’ and ‘Gestapo’ … We’re not going back to defund the police. We’re not going back to Biden’s failed open border policies … I hope that common sense will prevail, that we will pay every person that raised their hand at the Department of Homeland Security to say that we want to keep our homeland and the American people safe, and that we will find a pathway forward.”
On Elon Musk offering to pay TSA workers through the shutdown:
“Listen, we saw in the last Democrat-led shutdown, longest ever, 43 days, we saw an anonymous donor come in and do about 130 million to make sure that our troops were paid. There’s obviously there was a provision that allowed for that. Now, I think what we’re looking at now is what provisions allow for things like this to happen in the Department of Homeland Security. I appreciate the patriotism because what he’s saying is, as these men and women are coming to work to keep us safe, they should be getting a paycheck.”
On her support for Senator John Kennedy’s (R-La.) legislation to prevent members of Congress from receiving paychecks during a shutdown:
“I believe if Congress wasn’t getting a paycheck right now, that they would be much more eager to find a solution … John Kennedy has a bill and it says that if we don’t do our job and that if people aren’t getting paid … then Congress shouldn’t get a paycheck either. I firmly support that. And I think that if that move through the Senate and the House, that ultimately people will be much more eager to find a resolution, and I am all for it.”
You can watch the Senator’s full interview here.
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