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James Lankford: “The goal wasn't to solve a problem. The goal was to defund…”

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

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Lankford Joins Wake Up America After Funding ICE and CBP

Published | Video Starts at 01:17

… they try to bring up everything they possibly could to try to get a few Republicans to vote with them just to be able to bring the whole bill down. The goal wasn't to solve a problem. The goal was to defund ICE. That's been their focus all along. They lost that. We literally blocked every sing amendment they brought up and then we did the final passage about 5 o' clock this morning Eastern time. (01:17–01:21)

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