Shutdown

The Department of Homeland Security inches toward shutdown while Congress pats itself on the back for buying time. Our border isn't a scheduling conflict — it's a war front.

House conservatives and Senate Republicans are fighting over DHS funding, but the real argument is about whether the GOP is still a governing party or a permanent protest movement.

The government kept TSA workers paid through accounting tricks. Congress called it breathing room. Economists should call it what it is: deferred reckoning.