Trump says he’ll sign order to pay TSA agents as Senate works overnight on funding deal

So you *can* use ICE funding to pay for TSA? Fine, let's do this all year then. We can wait 

Trump means he'll use an autopen to sign the order, *right?*

They'll be paid in 2 weeks

And here I thought Congress held the power of the purse.

You had the ability to pay them anytime you wished? False flag op! Trump admin really doesn't care about America.

So much for all of that ‘power of the purse’ nonsense. And so much for all the ‘checks and balances.’ Republicans have nothing but contempt for the constitution.

Trump blinks...

Is that even legal?

Amazing. How did Trump largely leave the issue to Congress? How do you write an article and exclude that he suggested strongly to the Republican Party, don’t make any deal on anything in regards to the funding? He upended the negotiations more than once and Senator​ John Kennedy made that explicitly clear. He even announced it on Truth Social posts. Framing this article like this is disingenuous as hell. He could have done this werks ago if he wanted to do so.

If anything I think this whole situation really exposes how stupid our funding process is. Like, why can't Congress just f****** fund JUST the TSA? Why is an organization so important to daily functions in the USA linked to something like ICE and it gets treated like an all or nothing type deal? I know the blood lies solely on Republican hands here, (and I don't want to detract from their openly fascist reasons for making this difficult) but it really exposes how bloated and ridiculously complicated the entire beauracracy has become. No wonder Americans are easily swayed by a populist with empty promises.

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