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Katherine Clark: “We would like not to pay TSA, we would like not to rein in…”

Featuring: Katherine Clark, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 5th Congressional District

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Whip Clark on CNN: "Republicans Are Hellbent on Holding TSA Workers Hostage"

Published | Video Starts at 01:20

The Coast Guard, fema, our cybersecurity experts, so they can take one of two paths. And the answer coming from the President and Republicans is we take neither. We would like not to pay TSA, we would like not to rein in ICE and have them conduct themselves without a reign of terror in communities. We are just going to use them as collateral to get a voter suppression bill. This isn't an answer the American people can, can tolerate or put up with, and they deserve better than that. (01:20–01:32)

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Asserts that the administration prefers not to pay TSA and not to regulate ICE.

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