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Ted Cruz: “The next reconciliation will fail because without a tent…”

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

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And by the way, One of the things that leadership is saying is, no, no, we'll do another reconciliation after this. Well, you know what? The next reconciliation will fail because without a tent pole, without something like ICE and CBP, you ain't getting 50 and you ain't getting 218. because the Republicans will scatter on all sorts of different grounds. So. So you've gotta have something big enough to bring them together, and then we can win real victories. (31:23–31:34)

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Asserts that future reconciliation efforts will fail without a unifying issue like ICE and CBP funding.

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