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John Thune: “Democrats are rejecting funding for deporting criminal…”

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

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Thune: While Democrats Play Politics with Americans’ Livelihoods, Republicans Act to Reopen DHS

Published | Video Starts at 02:18

The White House made offer after offer, putting forward a robust list of additional reforms. Democrats just kept moving the goalposts and today they just walked away. And so here we are. Democrats are rejecting funding for deporting criminal illegal aliens, criminals guilty of assault, murders, sexual predators. They're rejecting funding for border security, drug interdiction. They're denying us the ability to fund the DSRM that investigates transnational criminal organizations, narcotics smuggling and human traffickers. (02:18–02:30)

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Asserts that Democrats are rejecting funding for deporting criminal illegal aliens.

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