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James Lankford: “Homeland Security has a quarter of a million federal…”

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Published March 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 05:50

Just one example of the impact of this. Yeah, there's quite a few. Fema, Secret Service, Coast Guard, tsa. There's a lot of examples. Homeland Security has a quarter of a million federal employees. a very large entity that has all of our Homeland Security on it. So it's very important that we get it back open again. (05:50–05:57)

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Asserts that the Department of Homeland Security employs 250,000 federal workers.

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