WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) made this statement on Senate Republicans finally agreeing to pass a funding bill for the entities within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that do not carry out immigration enforcement while negotiations over reforms to ICE and CBP continue.
"For weeks, we have been urging Republicans to stop blocking funding for TSA, FEMA, CISA, and the Coast Guard and restore pay for these civil servants. After Republicans rejected 14 of our attempts on the Senate Floor to do just that, today they finally relented - but only after their inaction led to worsening chaos at airports across the country and considerable hard...