Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso delivered a blistering floor speech Tuesday, exposing the Democrat Party’s priorities during the ongoing partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
While roughly 50,000 TSA agents are required to work without pay, causing massive airport delays and forcing hundreds to quit, Democrats are laser-focused on protecting illegal aliens.
Barrasso played a clip of Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy admitting on live television, “The people we care most about… are the undocumented.” He explained that the Democrat strategy for over 30 years has been to make undocumented immigrants citizens.
Barrasso stated plainly, “This is a Democrat… ‘the people we care most about,’ he says, ‘are the undocumented.’”
“Not these people who are working every day,” Barrasso said of American TSA agents.
Murphy made the comment during a 2024 MSNBC interview discussing immigration policy.
Murphy said the Democratic approach “has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented ‘Americans’ that are in this country.”
Barrasso summed it up by saying, “The American people are wondering today… why the Democrat Party continues to stand up for illegal immigrant criminals against law-abiding citizens.” He warned that Democrats are willing to “make people hurt” to protect their open-border agenda.
WATCH:
HOLY CRAP! Senator Barrasso just EXPOSED a Democrat who went on live TV and admitted the TRUTH: “This is a Democrat, ‘the people we care most about’, he says, ‘are the UNDOCUMENTED.’”
He’s ON POINT when he says Democrats DON’T CARE about the TSA agents who are working without… pic.twitter.com/LQcl0Fh8ao
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 25, 2026
The resurfaced admission has gone viral as the DHS shutdown drags into its sixth week.
WATCH:
Sen. Chris Murphy can’t hold back and says the quiet part out loud,
“The Democratic strategy for 30 years has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.”pic.twitter.com/yNEFJF71i8
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) March 25, 2026
The partial DHS shutdown began in February after Democrats blocked full funding for the department unless it included restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, such as limits on the use of masks by agents or on warrantless arrests.
Republicans have repeatedly offered clean funding bills and targeted measures to reopen TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, and other critical functions, but Democrats have voted them down.
As a result, TSA officers, who are deemed essential workers, have missed multiple paychecks for the third time in six months.
DHS reports that more than 450 TSA officers have already quit since the shutdown started.
Absenteeism has skyrocketed, with over 11 percent of agents calling out on some days and rates approaching 30-50 percent at major hubs like Houston, Atlanta, and New Orleans.
Travelers have been facing hours-long security lines during peak spring break travel.
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