Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday DHS will likely run out of funds to pay its employees by early May amid the ongoing partial government shutdown that has stretched for a record 67 days. President Trump earlier this month had approved the release of $10 billion in emergency funds from his so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act as negotiations on Capitol Hill remain at a standstill.

Mullin took to Fox News last night to blame Democrats for the shutdown. While Republicans have repeatedly blocked key demands to reform or defund ICE, they’ve recently proposed a budget that would grant DHS up to $140 billion in new deficit spending for President Trump’s deadly immigration crackdown. This is DHS Secretary Mullin.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin: “My payroll through DHS is just over $1.6 billion every two weeks, so the money is going extremely fast. And once that happens, there is no emergency funds after that.”