Lowey: Government shutdown could bluster mall, rail safety

WEST NYACK, N.Y. — With a Department of Homeland Security set to partially close down Friday, U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey pronounced new appropriation was urgently needed

Speaking Monday, Lowey blamed Congressional Republicans for personification a “dangerous game” with inhabitant security. She pronounced that a Homeland Security appropriation check upheld final month in a House of Representatives supplement supplies that seeks to “dismantle” President Obama’s executive actions on tying deportations of millions of bootleg immigrants. Lowey, D-Harrison, has introduced a check yet immigration measures.

“Whether we are a Democrat or a Republican, gripping a people protected is not a narrow-minded issue,” pronounced Lowey, a tip Democrat on House Appropriations Committee. “When we swear to office, you’re portion all a people. … This is not a time for narrow-minded shenanigans.”

House Republicans pronounced they had no skeleton to revisit a emanate after flitting a $39.7 billion check that supports a dialect by Sept. 30.

Lowey’s bureau pronounced internal initial responders stood to remove out on millions of Homeland Security grants — some-more than $7.6 million in Westchester and some-more than $1 million in Rockland — some of that is used for training firefighters for dangerous element incidents. That could embody emergencies like final week’s derailment in West Virginia of a 109-car CSX sight carrying Bakken wanton oil that derailed and exploded yet caused no injuries.

A cavalcade to ready Rockland firefighters for sight emergencies is designed for after this year, Rockland County Undersheriff Robert Van Cura said.

That could be in danger if Congress doesn’t strech some arrange of understanding to extend Homeland Security funding.

“Anytime we take something divided that we’ve means to use to build a resources and ready for any eventuality, it creates us some-more exposed and it becomes a potentially dangerous situation,” Van Cura pronounced during a press conference.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson pronounced shutting down his group would outcome in some 30,000 executive and other workers removing furloughed. Some 200,000 others would tumble into essential categories and stay on a job, yet mostly yet sketch a paycheck until a conditions is resolved. Johnson pronounced a furloughs could mistreat a U.S. response to militant threats and warnings. But some Republicans have argued that since a vast infancy of group staff would keep working, despite yet removing paid, a damaging effects of a shutdown were being exaggerated.

Clarkstown Police Chief Michael Sullivan pronounced appropriation cuts could impact his department’s ability to guarantee tyrannise lines and other appealing targets in town.

“Obviously if we don’t carrying appropriation to sight and to devise and to do drills, we’re still going to respond, we only won’t be as effective,” Sullivan said.

Contributing: The Associated Press

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