Ted Cruz

Well, it's Congress who's doing it.

No, it is not.

Republicans are voting to fund it, and Democrats are voting not to.

And the reason Democrats keep doing this is because they don't get held to account.

If I vote against funding, hold me to account.

But when they're the ones shutting it down, we need to be very clear telling the American people.

Well, it is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats that the White House has given them a ton.

Have you seen what the White House has given them?

Well, and let's take more fundamentally.

The DHS appropriations bill was a bipartisan bill negotiated between Republicans and Democrats that came out of the appropriations committee with bipartisan support.

So the Democrats had all of these different reforms that they put into DHS that Republicans agreed to.

By the way, none of those reforms have happened because they won't allow it to be funded.

Right.

Yeah.

The White House has been trying to negotiate with Democrats, although, as I said, for more than two weeks, the Democrats wouldn't even meet.

They had nothing to say.

This was while TSA was not getting paid, while DHS was not getting paid.

The Democrats position was, nope, we won't even sit and talk.

Yeah, it's actually even different from premeditated.

I think to some extent they're in a box.