Hakeem Jeffries: “You gave ICE a $75 billion slush fund.”

“That was the defunding that has taken place in this chamber during this Congress defunding ice. How do you stand up here as Republicans and say that to the American people with a straight face when You gave ICE a $75 billion slush fund. and then turned around and gave CBP a $65 billion slush fund in the same one big ugly bill? The reality is that we can end this shutdown, this 42 day extreme Trump Republican shutdown.” (05:09–05:13)

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