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WASHINGTON — They have no shame.

Members of Congress have been spotted enjoying the good life in casinos, at Disney World, and on overseas jaunts — while thousands of Department of Homeland Security workers go unpaid and airport security lines continue to wrap around the building.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was spotted at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. holding a bubble wand TMZ.com
Graham’s trip to “The Most Magical Place on Earth” came after Congress failed to end the partial government shutdown last week — leaving TSA agents unpaid. TMZ.com

Both the House and Senate adjourned last week for so-called “work from district” time, despite no agreement on sending the longest shutdown in US history.

Talks between Dems — who are using funding for the Transportation Security Administration and other vital Homeland Security agencys hostage in an effort to impose restrictions on ICE — and the GOP collapsed before the recess.

TSA agents — who make an average of $46,000 per year — started getting some back pay on Monday, put only because of an executive order from President Trump. Other DHS workers haven’t been paid since mid-February.

“Congress needs to come back,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday. “Democrats need to fund the Department of Homeland Security.”

On Sunday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee, was spotted at a casino bar in Fontainebleau Las Vegas in photos released by TMZ.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) was spotted inside a casino bar at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. TMZ.com
Garcia claimed he was in Sin City to visit his father. TMZ.com

Garcia noted that his father has lived in Sin City for 15 years and attempted to shift the blame to GOP leadership for the shutdown.

“I try to see him whenever I can,” Garcia said of his father. “And like I said a few days ago, Speaker Mike Johnson should have never sent us all home.”


  Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) flew out to LA to hang out with comedian Jimmy Kimmel at the “No Kings” protest. X/@ChrisMurphyCT Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) flew out to LA to hang out with comedian Jimmy Kimmel at the “No Kings” protest. X/@ChrisMurphyCT

  Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) was spotted at the No Kings protest in Orlando March 28, 2026. Congressman Maxwell Frost Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) was spotted at the No Kings protest in Orlando March 28, 2026. Congressman Maxwell Frost

Lawmakers in the House and Senate get paid a minimum of $174,000 a year, depending on their role. Their constitutionally protected paychecks come through regardless of whether the government shuts down due to a congressional deadlock.

Over the weekend, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) posted a picture of himself posing next to late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel in Los Angeles — far away from his home state — while participating in a “No Kings” rally.

The Post contacted Murphy’s office for an explanation about why he was so far from Connecticut.


  Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and John Curts (R-UT) arriving in Taipei on March 30, 2026. X/@SFRCdems Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and John Curts (R-UT) arriving in Taipei on March 30, 2026. X/@SFRCdems

A bunch of Democrat-aligned lawmakers in Congress were seen at “No Kings” protests over the weekend, often posting photos of themselves at the rallies, including Sens. Murphy, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), as well as Reps. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.), Grace Meng (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and more.

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) was seen enjoying his grandson’s baseball game back in Georgia.

Since Congress adjourned, a delegation of four senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee touched down in Taipei for discussions about the US relations with Taiwan.

Additionally, just hours after the Senate adjourned, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was spotted at Disney World with a bubble wand. Graham claims he was there to visit friends after lunch with special envoy Steve Witkoff and others, “about the possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.”

“I voted 7 times to fully fund the government,” Graham said in a statement. “Call a Democrat.”

Graham has numerous events planned in South Carolina this week.

Right now, there are no plans for either chamber of Congress to gavel back into session early. On Monday, the GOP didn’t attempt to wrangle any DHS funding bill through the Senate’s pro forma session.

The Senate had passed a bill to fund all of DHS except Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as Customs and Border Protection, in the wee Friday morning hours.

The House rejected that, and instead, passed a 60-day stopgap measure to keep all of DHS open through May 22.

President Trump took executive action last Friday to pay Transportation Security Administration workers, who last had a full paycheck on Feb. 14 when the funding lapse began.

The retroactive paychecks for TSA employees went out Monday to a majority of its workforce, according to a DHS spokesperson. Over 500 TSA workers have left the agency since the shutdown began.

But despite Trump’s executive order, thousands of federal workers in other DHS agencies still remain without paychecks, including support staff for ICE, CBP, Coast Guard, and more.

The current lapse has broken the prior 43-day record for a government shutdown that Congress set in the fall of last year.

“This is caused by Democrat terrorists. These people are sick,” Trump grumbled to reporters about Air Force One on Sunday.

“They don’t care about our country, they don’t care about people. But what it’s all about really is they want to have open borders, and they want to have criminals come into our country.”

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