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Rick Scott: “We should take away the money from any city that is a…”

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 05:55

You could say if you require voter id, you know you will get, continue to get federal resources and if you don't, we're going to take them away from you. So you could do something like that. So We should take away the money from any city that is a sanctuary city, any city that doesn't use voter id. any state that doesn't do this. Why is the federal government funding them? We need to secure a border. We've done that. Trump's done that. Now we need to secure elections. (05:55–06:01)

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Asserts that federal funding should be withdrawn from sanctuary cities and those not using voter ID.

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