James Lankford: “We pre funded ICE last year.”

“The President suggested today there might be a path through reconciliation where we see ICE and DHS funded separately, but ultimately funded. Absolutely funded. So we not only can do it that way, we already did it that way. We pre funded ICE last year. and I think it's what everyone's losing track of. In the one big beautiful bill. We plussed up ICE funding dramatically because we knew we would get to this moment and Democrats would not fund ice.” (00:16–00:19)

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