亚当·帕克 | 福克斯新闻 | 2026年3月26日美国东部时间6:35发布
纽约州民主党众议员、众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯曾表示，未能全额资助国土安全部（DHS）是“立法渎职”——但在当前与共和党人的资金僵局中，他正在背弃这一立场。
“我们今天来到这里只有一项任务，那就是为国土安全部提供全额资金，”杰弗里斯在2015年众议院的一次演讲中说道。
在其国会生涯初期，杰弗里斯曾敦促当时由共和党控制的众议院通过一项“纯粹”的国土安全部法案，当时该部门正濒临部分政府停摆。
“除此之外都是逃避我们的责任，除此之外都是立法渎职行为，”杰弗里斯当时说道，指的是为该部门提供全年拨款。
十年后，杰弗里斯改变了这一立场，认为全额资助国土安全部将是国会的失败。他与纽约州民主党参议员少数党领袖查克·舒默一起，对一项全年国土安全部拨款法案投了弃权票，同时要求进行各种改革以限制移民执法。
“纳税人的钱应该用来让美国人民的生活更实惠，而不是虐待或杀害他们，”杰弗里斯在2月份说道。“美国人民知道移民和海关执法局（ICE）已经失控了。”
这场持续39天的资金僵局已扰乱了全国的航空旅行，乘客在机场安检口面临数小时的等待，因为运输安全管理局（TSA）工作人员短缺。数万名国土安全部员工——包括TSA特工——在停摆期间无薪工作，导致一些人请假或干脆辞职。
代理TSA副局长亚当·斯塔尔周二表示，一些TSA人员睡在车里，出售血浆以维持生计。
预计杰弗里斯本周将与大多数民主党人一起投票反对一项全年国土安全部拨款法案。自2月14日资金中断以来，这位少数党领袖多次投票反对一项“纯粹”的国土安全部支出法案。
众议院议长、路易斯安那州共和党人迈克·约翰逊以主要共和党人的支持勉强推动该法案通过其议院，但该支出法案在参议院陷入停滞，几乎所有民主党人都在阻挠它。
相比之下，杰弗里斯试图推动对一项国土安全部拨款法案进行投票，该法案将在不包含移民执法职能的情况下为该部门提供资金。
“我们可以资助TSA、海岸警卫队、联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）、网络安全专业人员，或者继续允许ICE虐待甚至杀害美国公民，或暴力针对守法移民家庭，”杰弗里斯在上周的新闻发布会上说道。
在2015年的演讲中，他警告称这种立场可能会将美国人置于危险之中。
“在美国人民的安全受到威胁之际，我们却在玩政治游戏，”杰弗里斯谈到不通过全年国土安全部法案的前景时说道。
杰弗里斯的发言人没有立即回应福克斯新闻数字版的置评请求。
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Flashback: Jeffries called failing to fully fund DHS an ‘abdication of responsibility’
By Adam Pack | Fox News | Published March 26, 2026 6:35am EDT
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., once said that failing to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was “legislative malpractice” — a position he is now rejecting in the current funding standoff with Republicans.
“We are here today to do a single job, and that should be to fund fully the Department of Homeland Security,” Jeffries said during a 2015 speech on the House floor.
Jeffries, near the start of his congressional career, urged the Republican-controlled House to pass a “clean” DHS bill that year when the department was on the brink of a partial government shutdown.
“Anything else is an abdication of our responsibility. Anything else is an act of legislative malpractice,” Jeffries said at the time, referring to providing full-year appropriations to the department.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., holds a press conference on the 14th day of the U.S. government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2025.(Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
A decade later, Jeffries has reversed that position, arguing that fully funding DHS would be a failure of Congress. He and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have withheld their votes on a full-year DHS funding bill as they demand various reforms to rein in immigration enforcement.
“Taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for the American people, not brutalize or kill them,” Jeffries said in February. “The American people know ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is out of control.”
The 39-day funding standoff has snarled air travel across the country as passengers face hours-long wait times at airport security checkpoints due to a shortage of TSA workers. Tens of thousands of DHS employees — including TSA agents — are reporting to work without pay during the shutdown, leading some to call off work or quit altogether.
Some TSA personnel are sleeping in cars and selling blood plasma to make ends meet, Acting Deputy TSA Administrator Adam Stahl said Tuesday.
Jeffries is expected to vote against a full-year DHS measure with a majority of House Democrats this week. The minority leader has repeatedly voted against a “clean” DHS spending measure since the funding lapse began on Feb. 14.
A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer stands near a security checkpoint.(Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has narrowly steered the legislation through his chamber with largely Republican votes, but the spending measure has stalled in the Senate with nearly all Democrats moving to filibuster it.
Jeffries, by contrast, is seeking to force a vote on a DHS appropriations bill that would fund the department minus its immigration enforcement functions.
“We can fund TSA, fund the Coast Guard, fund FEMA, fund our cybersecurity professionals or continue to allow ICE to brutalize and, in some cases, kill American citizens or to violently target law-abiding immigrant families,” Jeffries said during a news conference last week.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., pauses for questions from reporters as he arrives for an early closed-door Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026.(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
It’s a position that he warned could put Americans in danger during the 2015 speech.
“We’re playing political games at a time when the safety and the security of the American people is being threatened,” Jeffries said regarding the prospect of not passing a full-year DHS bill.
A spokesperson for Jeffries did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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