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Ted Cruz: “Leadership's plan is to have the skinny anorexic bill that…”

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

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Sen Cruz: This is short-minded and short-sighted

Published | Video Starts at 01:14

I am making this case vigorously to my colleagues at lunch today. At lunch yesterday. I think I may have given your riff word for word, verbatim. Yesterday at lunch. Yes, sir. And listen, right now, Leadership's plan is to have the skinny anorexic bill that just has funding for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol. I think that is short minded, short sighted. And right now they're talking about funding ICE and Border Patrol for three and a half years at current levels. (01:14–01:23)

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Asserts that the current leadership plan is limited to funding ICE and Customs and Border Patrol.

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