South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham was spotted at Disney World in Orlando, having breakfast with Mickey Mouse amid the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. 

An image of the Senator at the ‘Most Magical Place on Earth’ made the rounds on X on Sunday after being originally published by TMZ.

Per TMZ, the South Carolina Republican was enjoying Sunday Brunch at Chef Mickey’s at the Contemporary Resort at Disney World. The unmarried and childless Graham was reportedly seen with a younger woman and a child.

A second TMZ story published Monday alleges that Graham was at Disney World on Friday evening as well. 

X users were quick to point out the hypocrisy of the Senator taking the trip while Federal workers at the Department of Homeland Security have now missed two paychecks, and delays at TSA checkpoints due to a lack of workers are plaguing travelers at airports across the country.

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s official press account reposted the TMZ article about Graham on X, commenting, ‘Divas still need vacation.’

X user Mike Smith, posting under the handle @punishedpat76, noted that ‘This is maybe one of the most normal things Graham has been seen doing in public.’

Communications consultant Liz Shrum wrote of Graham on X, ‘What a creep. While he sends the nations young people to war?’

Lindsey Graham speaks on the phone as he walks through the senate subway of the U.S. Capitol during a vote on March 04, 2026 in Washington, DC

Mickey Mouse on Main Street, U.S.A. just before sunrise at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida  on July 11, 2020

Senator Graham told TMZ of his Sunday brunch, ‘I was invited to a meeting in South Florida on Friday with Trump official Steve Witkoff … to talk about the possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel. I went to Orlando to meet friends after. I’m already back in South Carolina.’

He also added, ‘I voted 7 times to fully fund the government. Call a Democrat.’

Graham came under fire for claiming earlier this month that when he goes ‘back to South Carolina, I’m asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the Middle East’ to fight the war with Iran.  

During a tense hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Democrat and Republican lawmakers each blamed the opposing party for the shutdown while questioning leaders of TSA, CISA, FEMA, and even the Coast Guard.

Acting TSA administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill warned lawmakers during the hearing that if workers miss another paycheck on Friday, the total amount of missed wages would exceed $1 billion.

The DHS shutdown is now in its sixth week.