30mago 02.09 GMT 'Our heads are exploding’ over news that Pentagon shot down border protection drone in Texas, Democrats say Three House Democrats on committees that oversee the nation’s transportation and homeland security agencies said they were stunned by the news that the FAA had to close airspace in Texas again after two parts of the government once again failed to coordinate a laser strike on a suspected foreign drone. “Our heads are exploding over the news that DoD reportedly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a high risk counter-unmanned aircraft system, congressional Democrats Rick Larsen, André Carson and Bennie Thompson said in a statement. “We said MONTHS ago that the White House’s decision to sidestep a bipartisan, tri-committee bill to appropriately train C-UAS operators and address the lack of coordination between the Pentagon, DHS and the FAA was a short-sighted idea,” they added. “Now, we're seeing the result of its incompetence.”