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Markwayne Mullin: “The American people still want the homeland safe and yet the…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Extended interview: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on ICE at the World Cup, hantavirus and more

Published | Video Starts at 07:01

So because of the Democrats shutting us down for political theater, we owe money to the State Department, we owe money to Dow, we owe money to Interior because they were keeping us afloat. Listen, The American people still want the homeland safe and yet the Democrats wanted to play games with us and not fund us. But the men and women that worked in DHS that I had the greatest privilege to be able to run, they still want to do their mission every single day. (07:01–07:09)

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Asserts that Democrats are not funding homeland security efforts.

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