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Ted Cruz: “We had a bipartisan agreement on DHS funding until the…”

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

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Rather than be on defense, let's go on offense and say, you know what, we are the party of border security. We're gonna fund it. And because you guys were wildly unreasonable, We had a bipartisan agreement on DHS funding until the Democrats backed out. of. So the consequence of your stupidity is you increase the funding of ice. I think that's a no brainer. I don't know if my colleagues will agree with either of Those points the 10 years or increasing the. (20:29–20:34)

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Asserts that there was a bipartisan agreement on DHS funding until Democrats backed out.

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