James Lankford: “Next week, we'll have people that work for the Department of…”

“What's interesting is we just had our last vote of the week, and this is still not resolved, and members are all heading back home as if everything's normal, but it's not. Next week, we'll have people that work for the Department of Homeland Security not get a paycheck because it's not funded. because this body has not resolved this. Now, I understand my Democratic colleagues want to defund ice. I get that. I hear from them over and over again, let's defund ice.” (00:30–00:41)

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