Ted Cruz

Well, no, they haven't because we're the majority, damn it.

So let's act like it.

The instant we do that, and we do that, we turn on the lights on DHS, we get TSA agents paid again.

We start a reconciliation process.

Now, as regular listeners of this pod know, reconciliation is the major exception to the filibuster rule.

And to ordinarily fund government, you need 60 votes, which means we need seven Democrats.

That's how Democrats have been able to force this shutdown for 42 days.

However, reconciliation, you only need 50 votes.

And what I argue to my colleagues, we ought to take up reconciliation, and we ought to fund ICE and CBP.

And I said, listen, I don't think the Democrats will ever again fund ICE.

So in my view, we should fund them for 10 years.

10 years is the maximum budget window that you can do under reconciliation.

I said, let's put 10 years of funding in place right now because these lunatics would say we're not arresting murderers anymore.

We're not arresting gangbangers or child rapists anymore.

That's where their party is.

then i said we also need need to show them that their obstructionism their political terrorism doesn't yield rewards so elizabeth warren i'm sure is going to be running out crowing that she succeeded in defunding ice so what i've argued to my colleagues on reconciliation we need to up the ice budget what i suggested is increase it by 10 so that we can say to elizabeth warren and the other crazies congratulations

Your entire temper tantrum, here's what you accomplished.

You increased the funding for ICE by 10%, and we now have 10 years of funding locked in.

At this point, at now, 2.30 in the morning, it appears that's exactly what we're doing.

There is a proposal that's circulating.