DURBIN SLAMS REPUBLICANS FOR CONTINUING TO HOLD UP THE BIPARTISAN DEAL TO FUND MOST OF DHS, INCLUDING TSA & FEMA

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:

In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, slammed congressional Republicans for continuing to hold up a bipartisan deal that would fund every agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-except U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The bipartisan deal that has passed the Senate unanimously on two separate occasions would fund the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management A...