The Patriot Post® · Defunding Airport Police

This past weekend witnessed another huge mess at major U.S. airports. Travel experts are warning that if you’re taking a flight through a major airline hub, you need to get there four to five hours before your flight if you want to be sure to catch your plane. Why? Because our airport police have been working without pay for a month now, and many are calling out sick and even quitting.
 
During previous government shutdowns, Republicans have always been blamed because they don’t like big government. It’s easy for Democrats and their media allies to convince people that Republicans are trying to cut spending, cut Obamacare, or some other government program.
 
Then, they immediately jump to scare tactics, saying, “You’re not going to get your Social Security check. You’re not going to get your VA benefits. Your school might have to close. The national parks will be closed because of those evil Republicans.”
 
But Democrats are entirely responsible for this current shutdown, and not one “mainstream” media outlet will say that. If they say anything at all, it is to blame both sides. “Why can’t these politicians just sit down and work things out?”
 
This is very simple. Over the years, the main Democrat Party talking point was we should never hold government funding hostage over policy disputes. You settle policy disputes separately through negotiations and legislation. You don’t say, “We’re not going to fund the Department of Homeland Security unless federal immigration policy changes.”
 
But that’s exactly what Democrats are doing now—and in a time of heightened terrorist threats, as we’ve seen in the last month. Yet virtually nobody in the “mainstream” media is blaming them for this.
 
The Border Patrol, federal immigration police, and other immigration agencies got a huge funding boost in the One Big Beautiful Bill. The things that are not funded are what you’re seeing with your own eyes, including our airport police. They are the first line of defense at our airport. And, as usual, when Democrats see police, they want to defund them.
 
That’s what Democrats have demanded in recent years. They want to defund your local police, our federal immigration police, and now our airport police.
 
FEMA is another hostage of the latest Schumer shutdown. That means disaster relief is not being funded as huge storms bear down on the Midwest and the Atlantic seaboard. If Republicans were doing this, there would be rioting, stoked by the media.
 
Every Republican who goes on TV for an interview about any subject—Iran, the economy, housing, anything—should begin by saying:
 
“Before I answer that question, I just want to say to the American people, I hope you understand that the Democrat Party is undermining the safety of the American people. And if you’re stuck in a massive line at the airport right now and worried about missing your flight, that is all on the shoulders of the Democrat Party.”
 
God forbid, if there is a major terrorist attack that takes the lives of countless Americans. There is one party that should be held responsible.