We got along just fine before DHS ever existed so we don't need them anyway.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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Maybe that's the long-term plan, Democrats simply refuse to fund DHS at all. Take a page from the Republican playbook and drown it in the bathtub, or force Republicans to kill the filibuster ahead of an election which may put Democrats in the majority in the Senate.
Yeah, here's an opportunity for the Democrats to play "originalist" for once (DHS and subagencies didn't exist in the time of founding fathers, why do we need it now!?!?), see how Republicans react 🤪.
I mean, pretty famously, we didn't. Bad communication between agencies and poor airport security paved the way for 9/11. But given our intention of defunding just about every other federal agency, DHS's domino was going to get knocked down eventually.
What's more frustrating is that Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is effectively bankrolling CBP and ICE indefinitely. So we're going to defund the bureaucratic administration while pumping billions of dollars into a Presidential paramilitary force.
Overall, more than 90% of the Department of Homeland Security’s 272,000 employees would continue working during a lapse, according to the agency’s September shutdown plan covering the first five days of an impasse. More than 93% of ICE and CBP workers would remain on the job.
Only about 44,500 staffers would continue to be paid through other appropriations, according to the shutdown plan. However, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said last fall that 70,000 law enforcement personnel, including in CBP, ICE and other divisions, would receive their paychecks.
So we're putting the middle-management on furlough while the goons with the guns just get to run around snatching people, beating them, disappearing them, and executing them. And this is what we're going to call a "shutdown".
All the good parts will shut down...
ICE and CBP got that 75 billion no strings from BBB already.
Still better than everything else federal shutdown, but specifics matter. This won't slow ice at all
Good parts?
FEMA is part of DHS.
Mm ok. But in reality, we gotta take the hits at the moment.
So I doubt this will honestly go anywhere with the current Democratic leadership in place that's already showing cracks.
DHS already has the funding with no strings attached that it needs to continue on with the OBBB that democrats helped pass. Also DHS holds FMEA, Coast Guard, CISA, and TSA which I'm sure will get none of that funding with no strings attached to keep running.
Democrats are going to fold like a cheap whore soon.
Maybe they can hold their ground for long enough to get something accomplished. Like last time, remembe... oh, right. Shit.