It is shameful what the Democrats have now twice in this last year, forced people within the [Department of Homeland Security] to go without pay for extended periods of time. Republicans have tried repeatedly, not only through the bipartisan appropriations process, to ensure that the department and all the agencies and all the employees and all the functions are funded. (00:06–00:19)
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Asserts that Democrats have caused Department of Homeland Security employees to go unpaid twice in the past year.
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