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Angus King: “The ICE agents are being paid [during the shutdown]. Nobody…”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

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Now we have a strategy: Senator defends his vote to end the shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 01:09

Guess who's getting paid during the shutdown? Not. The park rangers or air traffic controllers. The ICE agents. Under special law, under that big awful bill that they passed last summer, The ICE agents are being paid [during the shutdown]. Nobody else is. So standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. It actually gave him more power. And then secondly, and I've been a big supporter of the aca, the idea of forcing … (01:09–01:18)

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Asserts that ICE agents are being paid during the shutdown while others are not.

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