James Lankford: “Democrats are refusing to fund Homeland Security.”

“But the president, he chooses who he wants to choose and puts his leadership team in place that he trusts. The challenge, as you mentioned, that Mark Wayne is going to face immediately is Democrats are refusing to fund Homeland Security. And it's been very, very frustrating on this. In fact, in the Senate, they refused to even negotiate on this. Their focus is they want ICE defunded. They want Border Patrol defunded.” (05:04–05:10)

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