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James Lankford: “250,000 people, families, individuals that work with DHS…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Lankford Introduces a Two Week Funding for DHS

Published | Video Starts at 02:42

… the far, far, far left want to defund ICE and, and want to show there's a huge fight to be able to take on ice. The result of that is 250,000 people, families, individuals that work with DHS wait for an answer. Wait. This has got to get resolved. The politics in this moment has got to stop. I was here last Thursday saying all of us should stay and stay over the weekend and not leave until this is resolved. (02:42–02:53)

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