Ongoing Democrat inaction found even an official from President Barack Obama’s administration calling out “BS” amid a “heightened threat environment.”
Doubling down on their folly from the fall, Democrats have carried on a partial government shutdown, refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security for roughly a month. While travel troubles represented an immediate impact on American lives, former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson addressed the Islamist elephant in the room as he cut to the “bottom line” about the current Democrat shutdown.
Once the boss of then-DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Johnson appeared on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” on Friday, where he spoke with co-anchor Dana Perino and Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin about the funding fight perpetuated by congressional Democrats.
“I believe we are in a heightened threat environment, most likely because of events in the Middle East,” said the former cabinet member. “Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. We can decapitate the leadership there, but that does not decapitate the ability to be a state sponsor of terrorism; does not decapitate the ability to inspire acts of terrorism, including acts of terrorism here in the homeland.”
🚨 WOW! Even OBAMA’S DHS Secretary is calling on Democrats to cut their BS and fund DHS NOW
“We are in a heightened threat environment!
Bottom line to all of this: Congress needs to fund the department that exists to ensure homeland security.”
pic.twitter.com/9KEFSVZxHL— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 13, 2026
“Bottom line to all of this: we need to fund — Congress needs to fund the department that exists to ensure homeland security,” added Johnson.
The assertion had come in response to Melugin raising the recent rash of terror attacks in the United States, which included the killing of an ROTC instructor at Virginia’s Old Dominion University, the ramming of a vehicle into Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan, the alleged would-be bombers inspired by ISIS in New York and a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt-wearing killer who was responsible for the deaths of two people in Austin along with the injury of more than a dozen others.
Of course, that reality hadn’t been sufficient for Democrats to vote in favor of funding DHS as a Thursday opportunity to drop their partisan games; instead, the upper chamber found itself nine votes short of the 60-vote threshold to send a funding bill to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Four jihadi attacks in US in last 2 weeks, and Dems just voted to keep DHS shutdown https://t.co/XHfmJVYb64 via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) March 13, 2026
Friday wasn’t Johnson’s first time bucking the party line, as he’d also come out against the record-breaking Democrat shutdown last year.
At the time, he told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, “I’m going to break from the party line here on this. I’m a Democrat. I’m with [Pennsylvania Sen.] John Fetterman (D) and [Maine Sen.] Angus King (I). The problem I see here is that to pass the budget, it needs 60 votes in the Senate. And what is happening each year now, and what I fear is going to happen in the future, is the minority party wants to link that to some other very, very important issue.”
Given Johnson’s track record, reactions to the former secretary’s stance were interpreted as a signal of how “bad” the threat must truly be to side against the Democrats.
Johnson was a major Muslim sympathizer during his tenure. You know it’s bad if he’s saying something! DO YOUR JOB! @SenateDems
— Amanda🇺🇸Americana (@Amanda7255thAve) March 13, 2026
Why is funding homeland security even a partisan fight right now?
— CryptoABD (@BullRunCryptoo) March 13, 2026
Even this Democrat from the Obama admin knows that Dems need to fund DHS Now!
— Dal Garber (@dal_garber) March 13, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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