Elfreth Votes No on Funding ICE, Urges Funding for TSA, FEMA, CISA, and Coast Guard

WASHINGTON, DC -Today, Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth (MD-03)voted against the House Republicans' continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This follows the Senate's passage of funding for DHS, excluding funding for ICE and CBP. After the vote, Elfreth released the following statement:

"The American people are tired of the inaction from Congress. For weeks, House Democrats have had a proposal to pay the hardworking federal employees at TSA, FEMA, CISA, and the Coast Guard and prevent the chaos we are now seeing at airports across the country. I commend my colleagues in the Senate for taking up and passing legislation on a bipartisan basis to reopen DHS without sending another penny to ICE and CBP.

"Representing the Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport and over 45,000 federal employees, nothing is more important than paying our civil servants and ensuring the American people can travel safely. Unfortunately, House Republicans have refused to take up legislation House Democrats put forward weeks ago, which means we are once again lurching between continuing resolutions and playing politics with the livelihoods of our civil servants.

"I have always been clear that we cannot fund President Trump's weaponization of ICE and the brutality they have unleashed on communities around our country. I urge House leadership to take up Congresswoman DeLauro's legislation to pay our employees at TSA, FEMA, CISA, and the Coast Guard who have been caught up in the chaos of Washington."

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