Ted Cruz

This is all the Democrats.

They have forced this shutdown, and they're forcing the shutdown because they hate ICE.

They're forcing the shutdown because the Democrat Party is entirely about illegal aliens now instead of American citizens.

We're going to break down exactly what's going on, what the impasse is, and how this is eventually going to come to resolution.

We're also going to talk about the latest of what's happening in Iran.

And in particular, Iran, President Trump has given Iran an ultimatum, 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz.

We're going to explain that.

We're also going to lay out how Iran has been firing missiles at Diego Garcia, a U.S.-British military base, and how that escalation may be bringing the Brits into being more active participants in this military conflict.

Seven different times.

And so, look, the way federal funding works is that every cabinet agency either has to have an appropriation, which is Congress voting to give it the money to spend its budget, or there has to be what's called a continuing resolution, which is just kind of maintaining the status quo.

Without one or the other, you have a shutdown.

Now, we previously managed to pass appropriations for every cabinet agency in the federal government except DHS.

And the Democrats held DHS out.

And it's because, look, they are the open border party.

And so we funded the rest of the government.

So the good news in this shutdown is our military, they're getting their paycheck.

Our FBI agents, they're getting their paycheck.

Everyone in the other parts of the federal government are getting paid.

But at the Department of Homeland Security,

There are hundreds of thousands of employees, many of whom are going into work.