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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “There is a bill sitting over here in the House of…”

Featuring: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic | U.S. House Florida, District 25

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April FL-25 Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 04:42

But we're also 72 days into Republicans homeland security shutdown. Now think about that. America is at war with the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and our Homeland Security Agency is shut down. Now look, There is a bill sitting over here in the House of Representatives that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, could have taken up a month ago, but he refused to take it up even though it passed the Senate unanimously. because Trump and Republicans are prioritizing impunity for ICE abuses like the killings in Minneapolis and the people stuffed in cages in the Everglades, overpaying our TSA officers and our other homeland defenders. (04:42–04:56)

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Asserts that a bill passed unanimously by the Senate is stalled in the House because the Speaker has not taken it up.

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