Bad enough that planes are delayed due to the government shutdown. Now, thousands of stranded passengers have to watch Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blame Democrats in a video where she says: 

“It is T.S.A.’s top priority to make sure that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience as possible while we keep you safe. However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this many of our operations are impacted and most of our T.S.A. employees are working without pay.”

It’s the same across much of the shuttered federal government. 

If your farm is losing global customers because other nations are retaliating for Trump’s tariffs and you go to the Department of Agriculture’s website to see if you have any recourse, you now read that the government is closed “due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown.”

If you try to get through to the Small Business Administration to check on your SBA loan, you get an automated phone message: “I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371) leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving........

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