Ted Cruz

They're just engaged in a primal scream.

And so what I told my colleagues is, listen, if we're working with people who are objectively unreasonable and who may well say we will never vote to fund ICE again, here's what I've suggested.

All right, fine.

If that's the reality...

We should get the Democrats to fund all of DHS except ICE, carve ICE out.

Now, you might say, OK, that's a terrible idea because then ICE doesn't get funded.

Remember, we've already funded ICE for four years.

Yeah.

So agree to fund everything except ICE.

And then what I urge my colleagues is if they force us to do that.

we should immediately take up a reconciliation bill and fund ICE for the next 10 years, and what I advocated for, and we should increase ICE's budget by 10%.

So if that's gonna be their price, we Democrats will never again vote for border security, we will never again vote for ICE, then at the end of the day, the only way I see to solve this problem, reconciliation, remember we've talked about this before,

It is the one procedural mechanism the Senate can use that does not require 60 votes.

That just Republicans can pass it.

And so if the Democrats would agree, we'll fund all of DHS except ICE.

The next week we should come back and do a reconciliation and fund ICE for a decade because I'm not convinced that these loons are going to change their mind in the next 10 years.

Look, I don't know.

I think there is a real urgency in the Senate to try to get this resolved before the Easter holiday.

The question is, are the Democrats going to budge?

There are a few of the Democrats who occasionally will reach a deal who are making noises like they want to, but Chuck Schumer doesn't care.