Dina Titus Admits DHS Shutdown Hurts Nevada, Concedes ICE Is Already Fully Funded

Dina Titus said the quiet part out loud. On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s Balance of Power, the Nevada Democrat openly admitted that the Department of Homeland Security shutdown is hurting her own state. Not Republicans. Not Washington bureaucrats. Nevadans.

“The shutdown really hurts Nevada,” Titus conceded. “If you don’t have TSA… this will just hurt more.”

That is not coming from a conservative critic. That is coming from Titus herself.

In a state where tourism is the lifeblood of the economy, where millions pass through airport security every year, and where conventions and visitors keep paychecks flowing, Titus acknowledged the obvious. If TSA is sidelined, Nevada takes a hit. Hotels feel it. Casino workers feel it. Restaurant staff feel it.

She even named the agencies being harmed. TSA. FEMA. The Coast Guard.

Her solution? Carve them out of the shutdown and fund them separately. “Pull out FEMA, pull out TSA, pull out Coast Guard, fund them, and send them on their way,” Titus said, before pivoting back to her party’s fixation on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

And then came the real admission. “We can’t cut off their money because they got all that money back in the big, beautiful bill. So, they’re funded. They can do whatever they want.”

Read that again.

Titus acknowledged that ICE is already funded. She acknowledged that the shutdown strategy cannot defund it. She acknowledged that these efforts are largely ineffective.

Yet she still voted in a way that has disrupted critical DHS operations and hurt Nevada’s tourism economy.

Conservative War Machine first flagged the clip on X, highlighting Titus’ own words. In the span of a few sentences, she admitted three things at once: the shutdown hurts Nevada, ICE cannot be defunded through this maneuver, and the political theater accomplishes little beyond chaos.

This is the pattern.

Democrats push brinkmanship over border enforcement. Nevada families pay the price. Airport workers brace for uncertainty. Emergency preparedness agencies like FEMA get dragged into partisan fights. The Coast Guard becomes collateral damage.

And in the middle of it, Titus shrugs and says ICE is funded anyway.

Nevadans deserve better than symbolic stunts that backfire on their own state. If even Dina Titus admits the shutdown hurts Nevada and does not achieve its stated goal, the question becomes simple.

Why vote for it in the first place?

In a tourism driven state that depends on safe travel, disaster response, and secure borders, Washington games have real world consequences. Titus just confirmed it on live television.

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