Ted Cruz

Coast Guardsmen and Secret Service and FEMA are not getting their paycheck.

And unless something significant changes, they're not going to get their paycheck for another two weeks.

So we're not going to see lines at airports.

But we're going to have Coast Guardsmen who are risking their lives to rescue people, to stop drug smugglers and human smugglers who don't know how they're going to pay their rent, don't know how they're going to pay their mortgage, who are going to food pantries to feed their kids.

And not a Democrat cares.

And so it's the good news on ICE and CBP is we pre-funded both of those back last year when we did the big reconciliation bill.

Yes.

No, it was preemptive.

We knew they were getting more and more extreme.

I don't think we fully realized how bad it was.

We had not yet focused on

They're just absolute refusal to fund ICE, and they don't care about the consequences.

But we funded four years of ICE and CBP because we could see that that was going to be a problem, which means if the House had passed the bill that the White House had negotiated with Senate Democrats –

The president would have signed it.

He said he would have signed it.

And all of DHS except ICE and parts of CBP would be funded.

And those parts of ICE and CBP were already funded.

It's why the White House was willing to do it because they're like, oh, we've got all the money we need for right now.

So even though the Democrats' talking point is we defunded ICE, they wouldn't have taken a penny away from ICE.

And we've already started the reconciliation process.