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Kristi Noem: “The Democrat Party is choosing not to fund them and making…”

Featuring: Kristi Noem, Republican | Secretary of Homeland Security, Former Governor of South Dakota | National

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Published | Video Starts at 43:25

The Department of Homeland Security has the agency that's responsible, responsible for stopping those threats and going after those bad actors. The Democrat Party is choosing not to fund them and making us very vulnerable to those terrorists being successful here in our homeland. I hope that they will come to their senses, recognize that the American people need to come first and have a policy discussion that we should be having on a policy bill in regards to any reforms that they want to see. (43:25–43:34)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party is not funding the Department of Homeland Security, increasing vulnerability to terrorism.

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