WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. John Thune issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Guy Benson on Fox News Radio.
On Democrats' DHS shutdown:
"The Democrats have now kept the department shut down for 41 days. It's a shutdown of their own design and their own making, and it's the second one. As you know, from last fall we had a 43, the longest shutdown in American history, and that was for all of government. But this one is rooted, really, in a deep desire on the part of the Democrats to defund the men and women in federal law enforcement, who wake up every day with the sole mission of protecting American communities. And so among the shutdown hostages, in this case, you've got employee...