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Ted Cruz: “We're going to use budget reconciliation to secure the…”

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

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Discussion on Trump's Legislative Agenda with Senator Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 01:58

Look, budget reconciliation, which is the main exception to the Senate filibuster, is the principal avenue that we're going to legislate what we need to get accomplished during Trump's first term. We're going to use budget reconciliation to secure the border and to invest billions of dollars in building the wall. hiring border patrol agents, hiring ICE agents, using drones and infrared and fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft and detention centers and ICE agents. All of that we're going to get done. (01:58–02:06)

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Asserts that budget reconciliation will be used to secure the border and invest billions in the wall.

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