Jon Favreau

Cassidy and Tillis thought they would be cutesy.

And they decided not to vote for that amendment.

They introduced their own, which was to say, you can't use the slush fund.

Then the way that Trump wants to use it, it has to be used for the anti-fraud initiative that J.D.

Vance is running, which is basically like, you know, robbing states of Medicaid funding.

If they find someone committing fraud somewhere, they just sort of collective punishment for the rest of the people who are on Medicaid.

So they introduced that amendment.

And obviously, Democrats weren't going to support that because it's crazy.

And the anti-fraud initiative is bullshit.

So they got like, I don't know, seven, eight, nine Republicans on that one.

But that one didn't pass either.

So now we have no language.

We have no language to kill the fund.

And you know what?

Like, it doesn't count what Susan Collins and who said and Sullivan did, because if it really counted and they really didn't want the fund, they could vote against the final bill.

They could vote against the final bill.

What's your level of concern that there hasn't been more drama around the ICE funding itself, which is sort of not even being talked about as much, partly because I think it was baked in that it was going to pass way back when

You know, the government shutdown happened or the DHS shutdown happened.

I know you covered ICE detention centers on Runaway Country this week.

I interviewed Andy Kim on Tuesday's pod, senator from New Jersey, about the horrific conditions at the detention center in Newark.