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Chuck Schumer: “Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum yesterday, demanding…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Senator Schumer is live from the Senate floor

Published | Video Starts at 07:19

… FEMA and CISA and fund other critical agencies, while at the same time securing real reforms to rein in ice. We had made some modest progress over the weekend before Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum yesterday, demanding that the SAVE act be part of any deal to pay TSA workers. Attaching voter suppression to TSA paychecks was an outrageous demand from the start. Democrats knew it, Republicans knew it, and we wasted a day of negotiations because of Donald Trump's temper tantrum. (07:19–07:27)

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Asserts that Donald Trump demanded the inclusion of the SAVE act in TSA worker payment negotiations.

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