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Ted Cruz: “I think the Democrats are so wildly unreasonable that they…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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And then actually, we were here throughout, throughout the weekend. We were in D.C. so we had lunch Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well. And what I'm arguing to my colleagues, I said, listen, I think the Democrats are so wildly unreasonable that they may be content to leave DHS defunded for the entire year. Really? They don't care about the consequences of what they're doing. They don't care about the fact that every TSA agent would have to quit and you would literally shut down every airport in the country like it's there. (17:46–17:58)

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