“Common Disgust”
MN-06 Daily | March 27, 2026
2 tweets. 4+ media appearances. 0 recorded votes (pending tonight).
961 days since last town hall.
DHS Shutdown: Day 42.
At 2:20 this morning, the United States Senate passed a bill to end the DHS shutdown. It funded TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, CISA, and the Secret Service. It passed unanimously — by voice vote, with no objection from a single Republican or Democrat.
By 9 a.m., the House Majority Whip was on television expressing what he called “common disgust” at the solution.
Not at the shutdown. Not at the 42 days without pay. Not at the 500+ TSA officers who have quit. Not at the 11.83% callout rate — the highest of the shutdown — recorded yesterday. Not at the three-hour security lines hitting airports during peak spring break travel.
At the bill that would have ended all of it.
What He Said Today
Rep. Emmer made at least four media appearances Friday — Fox Business (Kudlow), Fox Business (Varney), CNN (quoted), and a press availability — delivering the same message across all of them.
To reporters at the Capitol (via CNN): There was shared outrage among House leadership at the Senate’s actions, which he called inappropriate.
To Varney: The Speaker was unhappy. He was unhappy. The whole leadership group was unhappy. The Senate’s actions were “frankly not right.”
To Roll Call: He criticized the Senate for passing the bill at 3 a.m. while Americans slept, calling it exactly what makes people angry about politicians.
On Kudlow: The topic was listed as “Democrats are still for open borders.” The chyron read: HOUSE REJECTS SENATE-APPROVED DHS FUNDING BILL.
His one original tweet of the day, from @GOPMajorityWhip: “President Trump and Republicans made a promise to seal our border and deport criminal illegal aliens from our country. House Republicans are going to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security and provide law enforcement the resources to keep Americans SAFE.”
He also reposted Speaker Johnson: “House Republicans are NOT going to be part of any effort to reopen our borders or stop immigration enforcement. Chuck Schumer’s gambit last night is a joke.”
What Actually Happened
The Senate bill funds every part of DHS except ICE and most of Customs and Border Protection. It would have immediately restored paychecks for TSA workers, Coast Guard members, FEMA staff, CISA personnel, and Secret Service agents — tens of thousands of federal employees who have been working without pay.
Senate Republicans helped draft it. Senate Majority Leader Thune spent hours on the text. It passed with no Republican objection.
House Republican leadership rejected it within hours. Speaker Johnson called it “a joke.” The House Freedom Caucus demanded ICE funding and voter ID provisions be added before they would support any bill. Emmer notified members that the House would instead vote on a 60-day continuing resolution funding all of DHS at current levels — a bill Schumer immediately called “dead on arrival” because the Senate has already left for a two-week recess and Democrats will not fund ICE without reforms.
The House Majority Whip — the man whose job is to count votes and find a path to passage — chose to whip votes for a bill that cannot become law rather than bring to the floor a bill that already passed the Senate unanimously.
Hakeem Jeffries said the Senate bill has enough votes to pass the House right now.
The Pattern
This is not new. The documented record across 42 days:
On Day 24, Emmer said on a podcast: “At some point we have to be Americans.” That evening, his account tweeted that Democrats were to blame for TSA going without pay. He did not schedule a vote.
On Day 27, he said TSA workers received “zero dollar paychecks” because of Democrats. He did not mention the Murray bill — which would have funded TSA, FEMA, CISA, and the Coast Guard — that Senate Republicans blocked five times in 24 hours.
On Day 33, from the C-SPAN stakeout: “Because of the Democrats’ reckless political games, the men and women of TSA have been forced to work without pay for 43 percent of this fiscal year. It’s cruel, it’s dangerous, and it’s time for this to end. Democrats could stop this immediately today if they wanted to.”
He is the Majority Whip. He controls what comes to the floor.
On Day 42 — today — the Senate sent him a bill. Unanimously. He called it disgusting and sent it back.
What He Didn’t Mention
Alex Pretti. The Minneapolis VA nurse killed by Border Patrol in January 2026. The reason Senate Democrats are conditioning ICE funding on reforms. Emmer has never said his name publicly.
The Senate bill would pay TSA workers immediately. Today is payday. TSA workers received nothing — again. Trump signed an order directing DHS to pay them, with DHS saying paychecks could arrive as early as Monday. It is not clear where that money comes from or whether the order is legal. The bill Emmer rejected would have done it through appropriations — the constitutional process.
Jeffries’ vote count. The House Minority Leader said the Senate bill has the votes to pass the House. Emmer’s job is to count votes. He chose not to count these.
The Questions
The following questions were submitted to Rep. Emmer’s office via his official contact form. We are still awaiting a response to all previous submissions.
1. You expressed “common disgust” at the Senate’s DHS funding bill. The bill passed unanimously — including every Senate Republican. What specifically do you find disgusting about a bill your own party’s senators supported without objection?
2. You have said repeatedly that Democrats are to blame for TSA workers going without pay. Today the Senate sent you a bill that would restore those paychecks. You rejected it. Who is responsible for TSA workers not getting paid tonight?
3. House Minority Leader Jeffries says the Senate bill has enough votes to pass the House. As Majority Whip, have you conducted a whip count on the Senate-passed bill? If not, why not?
4. You are whipping votes for a 60-day CR that Senate Democrats have called “dead on arrival” and that cannot pass the Senate, which has left for recess. What is the legislative path to ending this shutdown before Congress returns in mid-April?
5. It has been 961 days since your last in-person town hall — August 9, 2023, Hamburg, MN. When is the next one?
We are still awaiting a response to all previous submissions.
📊 Source Data:
∙ @GOPMajorityWhip, @tomemmer — Twitter/X, March 27, 2026
∙ CNN: “House GOP erupts over Senate’s overnight move to fund pieces of DHS,” March 27, 2026
∙ Roll Call: “House GOP rejects bipartisan Senate bill to end DHS shutdown,” March 27, 2026
∙ NBC News: “House Republicans rebel against Senate-passed DHS bill, eye separate funding vote,” March 27, 2026
∙ CNBC: “TSA funding update: House GOP spikes DHS funding proposal, extending shutdown,” March 27, 2026
∙ NPR: “House Republicans reject Senate DHS bill, Trump signs TSA directive,” March 27, 2026
∙ CBS News: “DHS funding live updates,” March 27, 2026
∙ Fox Business: Kudlow, Tom Emmer segment, March 27, 2026
∙ Townhall: “House Republicans Are Reportedly Furious Over the Senate Bill Funding DHS,” March 27, 2026 (Emmer/Varney quotes)
∙ House Rules Committee: Meeting announcement, March 27, 2026 — Senate amendment to H.R. 7147
∙ C-SPAN: Rep. Tom Emmer, House Republican Leadership Stakeout, March 17, 2026 — MN-06 Watch transcript (Day 33 quotes)
∙ MN-06 Watch archives: March 10, 2026 (“At some point we have to be Americans”); March 13, 2026 (Murray bill blocked); March 16, 2026 (Day 30)
Republicans in the House fighting Republicans in the Senate. Yet Emmer’s cry is to blame Democrats. Republicans are in charge yet can’t find their way out of a paper bag.