Karoline Leavitt: “Democrats in Congress have voted seven times against funding…”

“But again, it's ridiculous that the president even has to go to the length of of working with the legal team and the Office of Management and Budget to identify these funds. It is the job of Congress to fund these agencies, and Democrats in Congress have voted seven times against funding the Department of Homeland Security. Congress should come back and they should get it done. The president again made the decision to prevent this existential crisis we were seeing at our nation's airports across the …” (26:20–26:26)

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