Recently, the historic Potomac River suffered a catastrophic disaster as the result of a sewer line break spilling millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.

President Donald Trump immediately ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to use all their resources to combat the problem and direct the clean-up. The problem: Trump says the partial government shutdown is impeding FEMA response, and that Democrats are to blame for halting FEMA’s funding, as well as that for the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard and other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to advance their goal of defunding or seriously restricting the capabilities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — even though ICE is fully funded through the next two years.