Markwayne Mullin: “Bennie Thompson, who's a ranking member, Democrat, ranking…”

“So when you're trying to fund two agents or two agencies like Custom and Border Protection and Immigration Custom Enforcement, which is ice, they're not intended to be funded through reconciliation. But because you have representatives like Bennie Thompson, who's a ranking member, Democrat, ranking member on Homeland in Mississippi, says that he's willing to shut down DHS again in September. which puts our mission to protecting the homeland at risk. President Trump and I had long conversations with leadership saying how can we take ICE and CBP off the table and keep them from threatening the homeland and putting our American constituents at risk?” (05:24–05:34)

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