They still wanted to make sure that their state, their constituents were secure, but yet they were willing to shut us down. When I became Secretary of Homeland, my number one focus was to get us funded. Hands down. That was my number one focus. 70, 80% of my time was trying to negotiate a solution to reopen at the end of the day, just for the sake of. (00:17–00:23)
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Asserts that his primary focus as Secretary of Homeland was securing funding.
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