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John Thune: “The bill [DHS funding] affects Coast Guard, cybersecurity…”

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

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Thune Joins The Guy Benson Show

Published | Video Starts at 06:08

And it's unfortunate because you're using all these employees at some of these key agencies as collateral for what is yet another harmful government shutdown and one that they own. I mean, this is not like there weren't, … The bill [DHS funding] affects Coast Guard, cybersecurity, TSA, FEMA. … has been very accommodating in trying to work and find the, you know, the deal space and negotiate with Democrats in a way that would get to an outcome and so far to no avail. (06:08)

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Asserts that the DHS funding bill affects multiple national security agencies.

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