Washington, March 3 -- Congressman Mike Johnson issued the following news release:
Today, Speaker Johnson released the following statement on the Democrat Department of Homeland Security shutdown:
"Regarding the Democrat DHS shutdown, the time has come to make a few things clear:
"It is inexcusable that Democrats continue to shut down the American government over and over, hurting American citizens and jeopardizing the security of our homeland - on purpose - to protect illegal aliens.
"In the fall, Democrats shut down the government to try to give American taxpayer funded health care benefits to illegal aliens.
"Now, they have shut down the government again for the expressed purpose of making sure known criminal illegal aliens includin...