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John Thune: “Democrats after we negotiated with them for 40 days on…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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So it's a, you know, it's a complicated, as you point out, process and certainly in the Senate where we have procedures that require super majorities, you have to have some Democrats and in this case the Democrats after we negotiated with them for 40 days on reforms, made it very clear they didn't really want reforms. And as Bill pointed out in your, in the lead up to this, they got zero of that. So they wanted all these restrictions on law enforcement agencies on ICE and cbp. (02:33–02:40)

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Asserts that Democrats were not genuinely interested in negotiating reforms after 40 days of discussions.

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