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Elissa Slotkin: “We thought we had a deal where we fund everything but ICE.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published March 25, 2026 | Video Starts at 17:08

What is your reaction to that? Yeah, so we, we thought we had a deal. We thought we had a deal where we fund everything but ICE. since we're having an American conversation about the use of force in our cities that is now like a cultural conversation in America after what happened in Minneapolis. (17:08–17:23)

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Asserts that there was a near-agreement to fund all DHS operations except ICE.

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