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Rick Scott: “We need to get rid of the filibuster or basically use the…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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'THEY DON'T CARE': Congress failed to do its job, GOP senator says

Published | Video Starts at 02:34

So now what we've got to do is we need to go back and we need to live in reality. Democrats will not fund homeland Security. We're going to have We need to get rid of the filibuster or basically use the reconciliation process, which only takes 51 votes. And to fund border security and ICE, that's the only way this is going to happen. Democrats don't care. (02:34–02:42)

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Asserts that eliminating the filibuster or using reconciliation is necessary to pass funding for border security and ICE.

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