BREAKING: A Republican senator just confirmed what many people suspected about the TSA shutdown.

BREAKING: A Republican senator just confirmed what many people suspected about the TSA shutdown.

Senator John Kennedy admitted that TSA workers could already be getting paid, but Trump personally told Republicans not to make a deal with Democrats. Kennedy said, “He said ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said ‘No deal.’”

That means this shutdown isn’t about negotiations breaking down or Congress being stuck. According to a Republican senator, the deal was there. The votes were there. The funding could have happened.

It was stopped on purpose.

So TSA agents are working without pay, airports are dealing with delays and staffing problems, and millions of Americans are dealing with the consequences — not because a deal was impossible, but because the White House didn’t want one.

This isn’t dysfunction.
This is a decision.