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James Lankford: “Senators don't get paid if federal workers are not getting…”

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

Lankford Joins Squawk Box After 19 Hours of Voting to Fund ICE and CBP

Published June 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 03:21

This is dumb. So what we've worked to do is a couple of things. One is right now, Senators don't get paid if federal workers are not getting paid. Okay, that. Fine, that's good. But that doesn't fix the problem for the federal workers. They're still not getting paid. On it. (03:21–03:26)

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Asserts that senators' pay is withheld during government shutdowns affecting federal workers.

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“One of the amendments they [Democrats] did last night was to remove even what little funding there is at all on ICE and CBP.”
Lankford Joins Squawk Box After 19 Hours of Voting to Fund ICE and CBP | Uploaded June 5, 2026 | 01:42-01:50
“We finally got it done through reconciliation.”
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“Democrats... did not want to fund ICE and CBP.”
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“They [Iran] are the sponsors of the worst terrorist organizations in the world.”
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“Government shutdowns are dumb. They get longer and longer all the time.”
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“If we get to the end of a fiscal year, appropriations are not done automatically. A continuing resolution kicks in.”
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“All these rumors of that there's this mass revolt against the President among Republicans is just not true.”
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“We have like a two vote major in the House. We have a three vote majority in the Senate.”
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“Iran has been lying to the world for decades.”
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“For 47 years they've [Iran] been attacking Americans every chance they could possibly get.”
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“We've got to get the Strait of Hormuz open.”
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“A region that absolutely cannot have a nuclear weapon, a terrorist entity with a nuclear weapon is a terrible idea.”
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