Ted Cruz

But the House has not been banging into the reality that the Democrats are just not going to move.

They don't care.

That's right.

And the House Republicans had a visceral, emotional and completely understandable reaction of this is indefensible.

So they passed a bill that just funds everything.

Yeah, that bill, unfortunately, will go nowhere.

We voted on that bill, I think, eight separate times and the Democrats voted it down every time.

So the effect of the House saying no.

TSA will be funded because the president signed an executive order to fund them.

But the effect of the House saying no is the Coast Guard is still not getting its paychecks.

Secret Service.

The people that we asked, if someone tries to kill the president, put your body in front of the bullet and die for the president, Secret Service is not getting their paycheck right now.

DHS, the offices, cyberterrorism, the offices that deal with bioterrorism, the people charged with preventing a terrorist attack are not getting paid.

And it's why in the face of just the Democrat insanity – and by the way, we've had four major terror attacks in the last three weeks, all from radical Islamic terrorists.

So the idea that we're defunding the department that prevents terrorist attacks and fights against them –

It is a level of recklessness that I've never seen.

And so I get the House's reaction.

But the consequences of saying we're not going to vote for the deal that the White House negotiated with Schumer – and understand, it was the White House that cut this deal.

It was the White House that was the point – the negotiating point back and forth with Schumer.

House Republicans were mad about it, but the consequence of that is –