WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Katie Britt issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined America's Newsroom with Bill Melugin on Fox News to discuss Democrats' continued political theater throughout their Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown.

On Republicans' repeated efforts to fully fund DHS and pay every hardworking man and woman protecting our nation and the American people.:

"Look, Democrats are using the safety and security of American citizens as a political pawn. And at the end of the day, the truth is, we went down to the floor yesterday to try to pay our TSA officers. We tried to pay our Coast Guard members. We tried to pay the people at the border who were interdicting fentanyl and the p...