Ted Cruz
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And the reason I did that is that you had John Thune, who went to the floor at like 2.30 in the morning and
and called for a voice vote, and there were only a half dozen senators on the floor.
That was an agreement both sides had reached to let it pass.
Well, we said at the time we weren't sure how things were going to play out, and Friday that illustrated to be the case, because the House came back, and House Republicans were pissed.
They were really, really angry.
Yeah, look, they were volcanically mad.
And part of it is House Republicans have not been dealing with Senate Democrats for the last 44 days.
And so House Republicans views were it is ridiculous.
It is objectively insane to defund ICE and to cut the funding for CBP.
And they're absolutely right.
It is ridiculous.
It is reckless.
It is dangerous.
It is a lunatic policy that for the entire history of the republic never would have happened except right now.
Yeah.
And what I will say is Senate Democrats, they are so angry.
They hate Trump so much.
My view, and we've been talking about this on the pod for two weeks.
I'm not surprised with where we ended up.
And I think it's where we will end up being because in my view, I believe the Democrats will never again vote to fund ICE forever.