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Mike Lee: “They don't want to fund the entire Department of Homeland…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 22nd

Published | Video Starts at 23:09

And that again completely ignores this provision in the text of the statute beginning on page 22 of line 12 of the Save America Act. So a picture is beginning to emerge. They don't want to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security. We're talking about somewhere between 230 and 260,000 hard working Americans who are not making a lot of money. They're paid for their services, but they're not getting rich off of this. (23:09–23:15)

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Asserts that some parties do not want to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

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