James Lankford: “My Democratic colleagues don't like what's going on with…”

“I'll be flying back. I'm leaving out from here and heading straight back right now. To be able to get back, we've got to get Department of Homeland Security open again. My Democratic colleagues don't like what's going on with ICE, and so they blocked all funding to the Department of Homeland Security. That's tsa, that's Coast Guard, that's our cybersecurity professionals, that's Secret Service. There's a lot of folks in Homeland Security that while they're holding up funding for ice, is also holding up funding for all those things.” (03:08–03:15)

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