Overview
- In a tense Face the Nation interview, CBS’s Margaret Brennan pressed border czar Tom Homan as the DHS shutdown left tens of thousands unpaid and Congress left town.
- Homan said Democrats caused the lapse by refusing to fund DHS to force changes that would curb ICE’s interior enforcement.
- Brennan countered that Republicans run the House and Senate and asked why the White House has not called lawmakers back.
- She also noted the Senate passed a bipartisan DHS bill that the House rejected after Speaker Mike Johnson criticized it.
- Homan said he backs reopening DHS without tying funding to immigration fights, saying he is with the president.