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Narrow-Height9477

Krist Noem (of former DHS, puppy/goat notoriety) is on the mining advisory board. No thanks.

connly33

You’d probably never see this incentive’s lmao. It’s also a catfish ad to recruit people into ice because anyone employable with half a brain has left the DHS or was fired.

YourChildhood5762

The military/DHS wants AI and the companies can't balk if the government has a stake. It's the same reason for the Intel buy-in. But it's not like they've turned down any other request from the CIA, FBI and military industrial complex.

iBoughtAtTheBottom

I work for a state DHS hotline and I gotta say…you poors are getting soo desperate. WAY too desperate. Just lie on the application and quit calling and begging for SNAP and Medicaid. Literally did you not read the fucking letters we sent you? Let’s go over it together regard LMAO 🤌

After-Question3165

It’s nice we have so many options to choose from nowadays lol. DHS is a wisdom tree one that’s basically S&P -any tech, and lots of dividend yielding ones too, commodity based covered call funds etc

YourChildhood5762

My point is that Airbus would probably be a wise investment over the troubled Boeing, and that any other European defense-oriented businesses will likely rise while the mainstream European-based companies will find it harder to operate while taxes and government funds will be re-directed. It is conceivable that the US would benefit from spending less money on overseas defense, but The Pentagon and DHS will suck up that money and I don't think we will see Any directed toward consumers, small business or business subsidies. =================================== The Total U.S. National Security Budget: $1.5 Trillion The official “defense budget” of $886 billion is only the DOD portion. The true cost of America's national security apparatus spans multiple agencies and includes costs the Pentagon would prefer you not think about. [https://www.warcosts.org/defense-budget](https://www.warcosts.org/defense-budget) The US Budget requests $111.1 billion in discretionary budget authority for Health & Human Services for 2027, a $15.8 billion or 12.5-percent decrease from the 2026 enacted level The Budget requests $73.5 billion in discretionary budget authority for Housing & Urban Development for 2027, a $10.7 billion or 13-percent decrease from the 2026 enacted level. [https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/budget\_fy2027.pdf](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/budget_fy2027.pdf)

MGreymanN

Kinda bogus DD when you switch currency randomly since its copy pasta. Also the incumbent fallacy...small players don't get large contracts. Small players get small contracts because the big players dont want them. If DHS is indeed to sign a much larger contract, big players become interested and small caps get brushed to the side. There is no catalyst here.

sWeven-Cats95

What do you think of Ocean Power Technologies as an oceanographer?  Also an Anduril proxy recently with the DHS. 

SayNoToFirefighters

this why regulatory capture is a bad thing. SEC, FCC, EPA, CDC, FBI, CIA, DHS, ICE, ATF (most likely by merger with FBI)

GameMusic

they will probably delete as ai so copy here to have data # The current unemployment rate is misleading. Temp help employment is down 21.4%. This signal has preceded every US recession since 1990. Here is what the data actually shows. TLDR and Sources at the End The headline U-3 unemployment rate is 4.3% as of April 2026 (FRED: UNRATE), and most financial headlines call it a "strong labor market." It is not. The number is technically accurate but economically misleading in ways that matter for policy, markets, and anyone trying to figure out where we actually are in the cycle. This post breaks down what U-3 misses, why the current distortions are severe, and what to look at instead. HOW U-3 ACTUALLY WORKS To be counted as unemployed in U-3, you must meet three conditions simultaneously: you do not have a job, you have actively looked for work in the past 4 weeks, and you are available to start a job. If you stop looking (because you are discouraged, or went back to school, or are driving rideshare to make rent), you are removed from both the numerator and the denominator. You cease to exist in the statistic. The BLS also publishes U-6, which includes discouraged workers, marginally attached workers, and involuntary part-time workers (people who want full-time work but can only find part-time). U-6 currently sits at 8.2% (FRED: U6RATE, April 2026), nearly double the U-3 figure. The gap between U-3 and U-6 has widened to 3.9 percentage points. A widening U-3 to U-6 spread is a classic late-cycle signal: employers cut hours and shift workers to part-time before they start cutting headcount outright. Note: the gap was wider during the 2008-2009 crisis (over 7 points) and briefly during COVID. The current 3.9 point gap is elevated relative to mid-cycle norms, not an all-time extreme. This design limitation has always existed. In normal times the gap between U-3 and economic reality is modest. Right now it is not. WHY THIS CYCLE IS WORSE Several factors are artificially compressing the headline number beyond what the standard U-3 limitation would produce: 1. The temp help collapse Temporary help employment (FRED: TEMPHELPS) peaked at 3,161,400 in March 2022 and has fallen to 2,485,100 as of April 2026. That is a decline of 676,300 jobs, or 21.4 percent. Temp help is widely considered among the best leading indicators of recession by economic researchers. It peaks 6 to 18 months before every downturn because businesses cut temps first, then part-timers, then full-timers. The current decline has been underway for over two years and has not reversed. For context: during the 2008 financial crisis, temp help fell 33.9 percent from peak (May 2006: 2,654.3K) to trough (June 2009: 1,753.8K). The current decline is about two-thirds of that magnitude. (Source: FRED TEMPHELPS, author calculation.) This is a red signal that the headline unemployment rate completely misses. Also, many former temp workers do not show up as "unemployed" in U-3. They drift into gig work or drop out of the labor force entirely. The temp collapse signals real labor market deterioration that U-3 masks by design. 2. Labor force shrinkage When people leave the labor force entirely, they are no longer counted in the unemployment rate. Since January 2025, immigration enforcement has removed a significant number of people from the BLS survey frame. DHS reports more than 675,000 formal deportations in President Trump's first year, plus an estimated 2.2 million self-deportations, totaling nearly 3 million people who left the country (DHS press release, January 20, 2026). The lower-bound ICE-only formal removal count is 442,637 for fiscal year 2025 per ICE data reported by Axios (April 2026). Important disclaimer on these numbers: independent trackers show substantially lower figures. TRAC at Syracuse University reports 290,603 formal ICE removals from January 2025 through November 2025, only 7 percent above FY2024 levels under Biden. The DHS self-deportation estimate of 2.2 million cannot be independently verified and the methodology for it has not been publicly disclosed. The true labor force impact from immigration enforcement is somewhere in this wide range, and readers should treat all figures as disputed. This mechanically lowers the unemployment rate because a shrinking labor force denominator masks any simultaneous layoffs. If you remove people from the labor force, unemployment falls even if zero new jobs are created. This is arithmetic, not politics. The exact impact on U-3 is impossible to calculate because we do not know the employment status of every person who left. But the direction is unambiguous: hundreds of thousands of working-age adults have exited the survey frame. That compresses the unemployment rate independently of actual labor market health. The overall labor force participation rate sits at 67.0 percent (FRED: LNS11300001, April 2026). The prime-age (25-54) participation rate is 83.8 percent (FRED: LNS11300060), which appears healthy. But the composition underneath matters: the participation rate is propped up by women and older workers staying in the workforce longer, often out of financial necessity rather than genuine labor demand. This masks softening at the margins where recessions start. 3. The gig economy classification problem Millions of drivers, delivery workers, and freelancers count as "employed" in the BLS household survey even when their net earnings fall below minimum wage after expenses. The BLS does not capture declining hourly earnings among the self-employed in the unemployment rate. You can drive 50 hours a week for a rideshare platform, net well under minimum wage after gas and vehicle costs, and you are "employed" under U-3. The quality of employment has deteriorated in ways the headline number cannot detect. 4. The quits rate has collapsed The JOLTS quits rate (FRED: JTSQUR) peaked at 3.0 percent in November 2021 and has fallen to 2.0 percent as of March 2026. People do not voluntarily leave jobs when they cannot find better ones. A falling quits rate signals low labor market confidence, but it does not affect the unemployment rate at all. This is one of the cleanest tells: a healthy labor market has churn. Workers leave for better pay. A scared labor market has people clinging to whatever they have. The quits rate is telling you the latter. 5. Real wages are under pressure for most people Average hourly earnings for all private employees grew from $36.12 in April 2025 to $37.41 in April 2026, a nominal gain of 3.6 percent (FRED: CES0500000003). That sounds adequate until you adjust for actual inflation faced by the bottom 60 percent of earners. The CPI basket weighting understates housing and food costs for lower-income households, meaning real wage growth for most workers is flat to slightly negative. People are employed but not gaining ground. This is a labor market quality signal U-3 cannot capture. Disclaimer: real wage analysis depends heavily on which inflation measure you use. By headline CPI, workers may show modest real gains. By a bottom-60-percent weighted basket, the picture is worse. There is no single definitively correct measure. 6. The personal saving rate has cratered The personal saving rate (FRED: PSAVERT) has fallen to 3.6 percent as of March 2026. This is down from 4.5 percent in January 2026 and well below the long-term average. Consumers have exhausted pandemic-era savings and are now running on fumes. Combined with $5.14 trillion in consumer credit outstanding (FRED: TOTALSL, March 2026), households have very little buffer. A labor shock would cascade quickly into defaults. note on credit card delinquencies: the rate has actually declined from its 3.22 percent peak in Q2 2024 to 2.94 percent in Q4 2025 (FRED: DRCCLACBS, latest available). This is an improving trend, not a deteriorating one. However, 2.94 percent remains elevated compared to the 1.53 percent COVID-era low in 2021 and is in line with 2019 pre-pandemic levels. Credit card stress has not gotten worse recently, but it has not normalized either. This indicator is not flashing red right now, but the savings buffer is so thin that any deterioration here would hit fast.

JeffTheOmega1

Why no WRAP DHS Drone contract

AdOk3638

Too many berrorists in here, i need to call DHS.

Zipski577

They signed DHS, Army, State Dept, CDC, and expanded in the Justice Dept, NIH and ICE under Biden. And were funded under Obama’s CIA. See @ChymChymX paragraph above But if your thesis was true, then a potential JD Vance presidency would send shares skyrocketing

ChymChymX

Was Biden a puppet too? They signed DHS, Army, State Dept, CDC, and expanded in the Justice Dept, NIH and ICE under Biden.

Somenakedguy

How are those gas prices treating you? Brilliant war he started with no plan whatsoever eh? Sure is great too that it turned out he couldn’t find any real savings from destroying the federal government. And then spent more than 10x more on wars overseas and the DHS And wow our president is doing crypto rug pull grifts what a time it is I’m so glad the lowest IQ people in our country voted him back in, thanks bud

captain_casino

Wow DHS funding actually passed lol

bigswordmeatlord

DHS shutdown ended, that affecting this?

WorkingHorror99

Partially shutdown, only DHS

Late-Tadpole-2318

Budget officials in admin trying to get repubs to concede on DHS funding lol

passwd-is-dolphin1

this company is just an integrator. They use 3rd party facial recognition software (in the past it was NEC) to build systems that are used during flight checkin. They do not have any real AI talent or technology. Leadrship is former DHS customs and border. They will do decent business selling to govt, but they are not to be taken seriously in the AI space.

Xijit

Just like the mission plan for this false flag distraction from The Epstein Files .. and his failure in Iran and how Trump is trying to starve Cubans to death and how the Tariff "refunds" are actually going to companies owned by people in his cabinet and how the DHS provisional funding is running out, so the department will run out of money before June / Federal employees will stop getting paid (again) and that is still is going to try to rig the midterm election.

LaserGuy626

Origins and Early Domestic/Immigration Use (Primarily Obama Era) Palantir's government work dates back to its founding in 2003, with early backing and contracts from the CIA and intelligence community for counterterrorism and data integration. ICE contracts began around 2011–2014 (Obama administration): A notable $41 million contract in 2014 for the Investigative Case Management (ICM) system to track records of immigrants, including access to other law enforcement databases. Earlier work included tools like FALCON for analytics. These enabled immigration enforcement and investigations, which critics labeled as surveillance of non-citizens (and sometimes linked to broader domestic data use). The system reportedly reached full operational capacity in 2017. Palantir has long worked with DHS, FBI, and other agencies for linking siloed databases, a capability that inherently raises privacy concerns about "surveillance" when applied domestically.

meatsmoothie82

The dollar is going to zero, stagflation is a certainty. between the continuing mass layoffs, extra trillion dollars in DOD and DHS deficit spending, buying back our own garbage debt, a rat fucked oil supply chain (open or not Hormuz is not a quick fix situation) and rate cuts guaranteed when the new Fed chair sits… markets and the 10 ai companies that drive them are the only place with any hope of generating a return for the foreseeable future. so yea, everyone and everything is gonna keep buying them.

cryptohorn

You see the DHS chick that was a sugar baby. Shyt is wild bruh

1hipG33K

I don't disagree with what you're saying, friend. We want the same thing here, and I'm holding my investments for as long as needed. So I imagine we'll both be there to ride the wave when it comes. But even as you stated, these are still only words and not action so far. Biden started this process in 2022 through the DHS, and we discovered a lot of sketchy relationships between the DEA and anti-cannabis groups. The result was only more delays, so it felt like it was going nowhere. All Trump has accomplished so far is more words and delays, but still no action. He is great at playing that game too, considering the December EO made everyone think, "it's gonna happen any day now." Here we are almost half a year later and still no action. So if today's announcement are only words telling people to do things, then nothing has happened yet. Until there's tangible change, my "boy who cried wolf" comparison still stands.

WorkingHorror99

It's up until next Friday EOD, DHS will run out of funding.

WhiteCrocsGuy

Here’s why I got UAL leap puts: Airlines fall during energy crises (high Jetfuel prices + high inflation = less travel) Constant government shutdowns and DHS not having funds to pay TSA means lines will be extremely long at airports and people will be even less inclined to fly. I’m a ber and believe airlines are going to nosedive soon.

TieAdorable4973

Yup DHS is running on fumes

Late-Tadpole-2318

DHS burned 8.6 billy of their 10 billion tax bill windfall from last year. After careful consideration Mullins is pretty please asking for over 36 billion/year now

Somenakedguy

It can be when you’re part of the grift with the most corrupt administration in the history of the US government Like the contract for pointless DHS ads for hundreds of millions of dollars that Kristi Noem awarded to a company that was created a few days prior by her friends

derprondo

Lmao will cost more than doge saved, then add the cost of DHS budget increases, and then call this winning?

Wide_Neighborhood_49

Undocumented immigrants are filing tax returns at 33% of previous levels due new IRS policy of sharing their information with DHS. Expected to cost US over 300 billion by 2026.

MephistoHamProducts

> We have a war going on so we can't have an election... This is such a silly talking point. Elections are run by states. If Trump declares "No Elections because WAR", blue states can still hold elections and send reps to DC. There's not enough bodies in ICE or DHS to monitor all polling stations and harass voters. If red states go along with his insanity, then those red states lose the ability to send people to DC. If they don't go along with his insanity they undermine him. The only way for Trump or his festering clump of hangers on can "stop elections" is to literally start arresting and executing Democratic politicians and that's not "stopping elections", that's a violent coup. A violent coup is an entirely different ball of wax.

AdWitty4949

🚨 TRUMP JUST MADE 5 MOVES IN 48 HOURS. And nobody is connecting the dots. MOVE 1: Signed executive order threatening 25% TARIFFS on any country trading with Iran. Target: China. India. Turkey. The petrodollar stranglehold is ENDING. MOVE 2: Threatened to SUE his own Federal Reserve nominee if he doesn't lower rates. "It was a joke." No. It was a WARNING. The Fed's days are numbered. MOVE 3: Pentagon CUT ALL TIES with Harvard. Military training. Fellowships. Programs. ALL GONE. The Ivy League pipeline to power is DEAD. MOVE 4: Launched TrumpRx. 43 medications. Ozempic included. Big Pharma's monopoly: BROKEN. They charged you $1,000. He's giving it for $300. MOVE 5: DHS funding expires February 13th. 6 days from now. Controlled shutdown incoming. Why? Because you can't RESTRUCTURE what's still running. Connect the dots: Iran tariffs = END of petrodollar Fed threat = END of central banking control Harvard cut = END of Deep State recruitment TrumpRx = END of Big Pharma monopoly DHS shutdown = RESTRUCTURING of homeland security This isn't chaos. This is a DEMOLITION. Piece by piece. System by system. Pillar by pillar. The old world is being dismantled in REAL TIME. And the new one is being built while you watch. 🔺 DARK TO LIGHT 🔺

Blueberryburntpie

> Smart people will focus on the fat that Trump plans to spend $1.5trillion on wars in 2027. That's going to require Congress to do some gymnastics when they can't even agree on the DHS funding. I could definitely see internal cuts within the DoD to fund the war. I mean we're not going to need "R&D" when we have an immediate war to win, so that can go out the window (goodbye to the sixth generation F-47 jet program that is supposed to replace the F-35s and F-22s).

Late-Tadpole-2318

Four aircraft down today, DHS cultmaxxing in their socials. And it’s only Friday We’re in shambles

GuwopGOAT

ROBINHOOD is crazy you’re telling me I can bet on who the next DHS secretary is lmao

GruntledGary

Just like DOJ, DHS, CDC, FBI, are all operating "normally" and haven't been under pressure, gutted staff, and appointed loyalists. There are of course great dedicated people still working there, but when someone comes in and tries to put their thumb on the scales, applies pressure, fires people, berates them publicly, it takes a toll. It's just human nature.

winston511

This is what winning looks like folks: DHS head fired, Army chief of staff fired, director of counterterrorism quits, rumors the FBI director is next. That’s what happens when you truly win so much, you fire everyone in leadership positions. It’s standard winning practice really.

IdratherBhiking1

Not an elephant or donkey loyalist… Democrats won’t do anything legislatively to put pressure on the market. They are too disorganized and will waste all their energy stonewalling Trump’s agenda and trying to repair immigration / DHS / border patrol and just talking about inflation.

Sharp-Direction-6894

Noem removed from DHS. Bondi removed from AG. How long until Hegseth removed from his position?

Boheed

President will attempt to bypass Congress by using executive order to pay DHS employees amid government shutdown

ring_of_slattern

Did we just pump because DHS is getting funded? We still can't afford to fly because of these gas prices lmao

calmnutz

He’ll express pride in the Artemis launch, disappointment in SCOTUS, happiness in ending the DHS shutdown, and just reiterate his points on Iran.

Actual_Difference617

Not to forget the horrors she made detainees go through while being in charge of DHS.

Skid-Vicious

Only thing that would have been better is if she was still head of DHS.

retiredgreen

How long was the <every presidential skirmish since Korean war>? Trump has 3 more years. It's more how much is too much for the average American to afford energy before Americans actually revolt. Energy is going to go up even more, even with a stopping point. NPR had a guy championing how he got paid with DHS, but it was only his last weeks normal pay, not the last 5! paychecks due. And he took out personal loans thinking he could self float. It's active destruction of America by the Trump government. "Russia is going to start there summer offensive" -some BS news, doesn't help me. "China does \*anything\*" Especially call in any debts at any time, can cripple the US as much as oil prices. Who is gonna bail out America? not Russia, China, South AM, Mexico or Europe. I sold stocks I was holding for a loss.

jeffynihao

Can this 🥭 at least give up the DHS funding shit so we get a LITTLE pump at least. I can't keep track of a gov shutdown on top of this war

artisanrox

considering DHS's budget for ICE is now larger than some branches in the military, you must surely be more mad over that than you are about giving stuff to Ukraine which was a drop in the bucket, supporting a country against a known international political and economic meddler.

GoingDownUnderInSEA

Ok so what happened today? The one day I didn't look at rh. Shit busted. Did he say something or is it the DHS thing?

Numerous_Put4717

Forget DHS funding, let's hear Johnson talk about the no no's of masturbation.  That is what WSB needs to listen to.

Burger_Gouger

DHS bill rejected. DUMP IT

Disconn3cted

Partial DHS funding bill LOL

radishr

Dump at open and then pump mid-day when House approves the DHS funding bill that the Senate passed last night (even though that doesn't have shit all to do with anything in Iran).

WrexyWrex

Senate agrees to fund DHS, except ICE and Border Patrol, in bid to end 40-day shutdown He chickened

tinydisaster

I mean based on polling it was inevitable that erosion into his base was going to happen sooner or later. His policies are bad for markets, they are bad for his base, and they are bad for global trade. He said exactly what he was gonna do on all of it too. And the republicans in Congress refuse to rein him in, be it with funding DHS, or a war powers resolution that was written to keep presidents in check so they can’t randomly start a war. I’m confused why the market isn’t immediately down 10-15, he’ll maybe even 25% on this. It seems obvious he can’t taco anymore, and we all still need oil, especially after he gutted all the grid infrastructure improvements the last president put in place for the AI revolution.

apurimac777

Bruh DHS got a fuckton of money last year for ICE and Noem's PJ fleet They could totally pay TSA but this is about trying to fuck dems into being pussy bitches (again)

TJMBeav

Will be interesting to see the market response is if the DHS budget is passed finally. Leave it to Dems to take a perfectly wrapped present that Iran is and fuck it up because of ICE. You cannot make up stupidity bigger than that. Do the democrats even have a leader?

_rockthemike

We’re here because DHS was stripped from the CR last gov shutdown . Again holding DHS funding hostage for leverage. Downvotes don’t change reality, Dems want changes so hold up funding.

_rockthemike

Because dems want changes to ICE so they hold DHS hostage, which pays TSA. Get the fuck over it, hating on Ice is so last month. These people already make fucking shit pay, I looked into working TSA. Starting pay like 40k

Superest22

Can someone explain the US DHS shutdown stuff? Shutdowns seem so odd, why is there one going on right now?

FormalOperational

In addition to AI and data infrastructure, retards are chomping at the bit for exposure to the private companies doing business with the US federal government: Databricks (DHS & IRS), OpenAI (DoD), Anduril (Army), SpaceX (NASA & DoD), dbt/Fivetran (CMS), and Vanta (various for FedRAMP authorization). I can see this running up some more until the underlying companies start to IPO, then it should start correcting. Or September when the restricted shares unlock, whichever comes first.

Affectionate-Idea690

Delta suspends ‘specialty services’ perk for members of Congress, cites DHS shutdown Oh shit watch then work overtime for their own perks 😂 😂 😂 

shindiggaa

Some MMA fighter is gonna be the DHS head

Standard-Top-5942

New DHS lead has only a high school degree from some shit public school in south loo

Salty-Bid1597

The FCC completely banned sales of non-US routers. But there aren't any US manufacturers lol.  The US government's war on it's own citizens continues apace. I guess you'll need to apply to the DHS to get an exemption or join the pre-order queue for a Freedom and Victory Router (with patriotic backdoors so that ICE and Lynsey Graham can protect your family).  Coming "soon"\* from a TeslaXAIGrok PetaFab in Laredo, employing only "Genuine American"\*\* workers. \* estimated 3035 \*\* Workers may not live in or be citizens of the United States.

dudeCHILL013

ICE and Federal Air Marshall's have very different roles. For one ICE officers are not trained on airport screening. And while mission parameters may overlap in unique situations, cross designation (if it works the way I think it works) would technically/ administratively be impossible . They both along with the coast guard all fall under DHS just because an individual can do the job another agency typically does doesn't magically give them that agency's title. Hope that made sence.

Taurius2

DHS overhired ICE to prepare for mid terms. Instead of them being sent to the border for experience in actual immigration law enforcement, they are being sent to the airport for mass population control. They will start going up to people demanding documents. Rounding up people who refuse to cooperate. Eventually shooting anyone that resists. Death will occur sometime before Nov.

Late-Tadpole-2318

Lol so both parties agreed to a DHS funding deal, 🥭 rejected it, and airports are fucked while admin argues that security should be privatized

Claim312ButAct847

FWIW I just went through TSA at O'Hare and the workers were all TSA, I didn't see anyone in a DHS or ICE uniform. They did have one good boi sniffing everyone, but he was a GSP.

vwboyaf1

This TSA/DHS crisis will be the next dump and pump event.

randysavagevoice

I'm from the future in August. 47 just posted: Tom Homan was an errand boy who couldn't get my covfefe order right. Marko Rubio is now leading DHS. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The_Robert79

Nothing, I work for DHS and haven’t recieved the last two.

Independent-Tree-985

> ICE isn't getting paid either right >> Based on reports from early 2026, the situation regarding ICE pay is complex, involving both administrative backlogs and issues arising from a government funding standoff: >> Payment Issues & Delayed Bonuses: Many new ICE agents have complained that they are not receiving promised signing bonuses, with some reports indicating these incentives have not materialized weeks or months after starting. Some agents have reported that the promised $50,000 bonus was either missing or arrived as much smaller, heavily taxed amounts. >> Administrative Issues: Internal documents have suggested a, "systemic collapse in payroll processing" for some new hires within the agency, with employees reporting on social media that they are not getting paid or receiving necessary insurance. >> Shutdown Context: While many Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees have had to work without pay during recent funding shutdowns, reports have indicated that the White House has worked to find funding to pay essential employees, including ICE. >> Ongoing Disputes: Despite these efforts, reports indicate that some agents have complained about "late salaries and missing insurance," with debates over funding in Congress complicating the issue.

jeffynihao

Heading into over a month of government shutdown with tons of TSA employees just straight up quitting. Commercial flights about to hit lock down numbers. He's sending ice agents that aren't gonna get paid either cuz he's not gonna get the DHS funding. Oil still spiking with no off ramp. Ice agents about to all be fired soon. No rate cuts because inflation gonna spike with oil.

aaron_dresden

Isn’t the SAVE America Act another attempt? The combo of proof of citizenship effecting in person and mail in ballots and the requirement of States to provide their voter rolls to DHS to weed out “non citizens”, giving them the power in theory to restrict who can vote, and request states remove them from their rolls to impact voting there. I hear it’s unlikely to pass and it’s questionable whether the Act can force States to remove people from their rolls, but it seems like another interference attempt.

loogabar00ga

Or DHS could just reallocate some of its own funds from ICE to TSA.

Accidental-Genius

No, they aren’t getting paid. The whole prior shutdown thing was to make the DHS funding its own silo. So the funds allocated by the big ugly bill are technically there but also inaccessible at present.

232jak

Ah yes — the group within DHS that is still getting a paycheck to work alongside the group that isn’t. TSA agents will be ecstatic to welcome their colleagues.

buckthorn5000

Ah yeah, the adults who had no idea that Iran would close the Straits of Hormuz before Iran…. Closed the Straits of Hormuz. The adults who appointed 20-something crypto bros to cut costs and ended up destroying US soft power across the world and saving nothing. The adults who fired nuclear safety engineers only to have to very expensively re-hire them. The adults who said they couldn’t wait to release the Epstein files, to the Epstein files were being reviewed, to there were no Epstein files, to the Epstein files were a Democrat hoax, to the Epstein files are real but Trump isn’t in them, to Trump was an FBI informant on Epstein, to Trump is in the Epstein files but they totally exonerate him. There is zero evidence that anything you said has any real world proof. I do love how the Democrats are being blamed for shutting down DHS; pretty effective for an irrelevant political party. If you have any facts at your disposal whatsoever, I’d recommend using them instead of pithy personal attacks.

fatheadlifter

I've been worried about this too but structurally I don't think there's any way he can do it, despite his threats. Our voting system is decentralized, handled by 50 states with 50 different set of rules. He has no authority over state elections. But I agree with you he would still look for a way to try. There was a theory that was his plan in Minnesota with Operation Metro Surge. Send in 3000 untrained ICE agents to cause violations and chaos, then get evidence of riots. Use that evidence to bring back the Insurrection Act, giving him authority to suspend elections. But Metro Surge failed, it blew up in his face. Minnesotans didn't take the bait, he was outsmarted. He lost his DHS secretary and the fascist captian he put in charge of ICE. I don't think there's any way he tries that playbook again before the midterms. That was his shot to go that route, and it failed hard. And he's running out of time. Metro Surge was an abject failure and the country now believes that ICE should be abolished. So they really lost that one. The other trick they were trying late last year was to rig the election itself by having red states stack the congress with extra republican house seats. That also blew up in their faces. Some states like Idaho pushed back against their own party, and blue states like CA and VA kicked out the republicans and made more democrat house seats to counterbalance. So not only is that tactic all played out, it has no more runway. Election/ballot deadlines are over, no more states to rig, nothing they can do. Believe me I try to figure this out, what else can Trump do. The realistic options are probably dwindling.

MaybeTheDoctor

It’s funny how TSA and ICE are both funded by DHS, but somehow DHS can find ways to keep ICE funded under “essential” but TSA is just fucked. 100% engineered by republicans for maximum rage (and deployment of Gestapo)

DeliriousHippie

Yep. Democrats and Republicans are fighting about some DHS things. Before fight ends DHS doesn't have money to pay to TSA agents and because TSA agents aren't getting payed they have been skipping coming to work. For democrats this is way to pressure republicans and Trump to concessions in DHS things. Trump ordering ICE to handle TSA role is his way to lessen pressure. Musk offered to pay TSA agents but democrats see that as a way to lessen their pressure. Analogy is that if democrats would be holding strings and republicans forces shutdown of government and then Warren Buffet, bogeyman from left, would offer to keep government rolling to lessen republican influence.

RareMajority

Dems didn't want it to look to their voters like they were supporting DHS and ICE. There was a bipartisan bill set to sail through right before Pretti was murdered, and that's when they decided they couldn't vote to fund DHS without something to rein in ICE/CBP.

drew-chill-spinach

DHS pays them both. Why doesn't DHS just pay the TSA agents?

RareMajority

They got separate funding through the "Big Beautiful Bill" to last them years, so they are one of the few agencies in DHS who are still getting paid. Them and BPD

8to24

Both ICE and TSA are part of DHS. How are ICE agents being paid if TSA agents aren't?

NarpRocks

Yes, we know that.  We're making fun of him because no one gives a fuck if he actually uses DHS to do their jobs instead of shooting Americans.

jeffynihao

TRUMP: I WILL DEPLOY ICE AGENTS TO AIRPORTS ON MONDAY IF DEMOCRATS DON'T AGREE TO FUND DHS Puts are so obvious bro

PatientHelicopter123

**Another Trump distraction from the Epstain/Trump files.** Impeach, Depose, Charge, Convict and Imprison the PEDO. Release the rest of the unredacted Epstain/Trump files! FOLLOW THE MONEY...! We see thru your lies. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! Pretty sure bone spurs aren't hereditary... Apparently, **COWARDICE** is! I guess DHS stays shut down... can't wait for the mid-terms!

elephantsaregray

I'm reporting all bear posts to DHS. It's terroristic to root for the downfall of histories greatest market

Cheap_Review9352

Your breakdown of the team structure makes a lot of sense - the federal contracting world is basically its own beast with all these unwritten rules and relationship requirements 😂 I've seen this play out in other sectors too where having the right connections and understanding the bureaucracy matters way more than just having superior tech. The airport operations background is particularly smart since those folks deal with TSA, FAA, DHS on the regular so they know how to speak that language The microgrid angle for military/emergency infrastructure is definitely where the money's at right now, especially with all the grid reliability concerns. Even if they don't land the massive contracts immediately, just being positioned to bid on that level of work puts them in a completely different category than most small energy companies 🔥

spsteve

I hear being a plumber is how you get nominated to head DHS...

QuarterBackground

Between the increases in the War dept and DHS budgets, we could've had free healthcare & daycare for all. But that'd make us Marxist Communusts. God forbid.

orsomeshitidk

I fr think🥭 considers how badly someone needs to have the brakes beat off of them before offering them a cabinet position. Name a more punchable cabinet. Sec of war and new DHS Sec both especially need it bad.

rabidstoat

I think that a bill funding TSA (and other DHS agencies except ICE) have been introduced individually multiple times, but it keeps getting voted down.

CPA-hole

DHS: can we please have one crumb of funding

Jacobdlt

Mullin part of super secret classified mission that even the FBI doesn’t have record of it lol Bro can’t even handle softball questions without breaking. Totally a qualified person to run DHS /s

Glad-Veterinarian365

As soon as DHS is funded again, all 22k of currently employed ICE agents will be assigned to the deportation of Jerome Powell

Cordwaining

Or making sure DHS is funded.