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And so Schumer said, if we agreed to fund everything but ERO at ICE, the Democrats would be fine.
We ended up, President Trump agreed to that deal.
And then Schumer and the Democrats all backed out and said, nope, nope, never mind.
We didn't mean it.
We understand we offered that deal.
We lied.
We can't do it.
Which delayed things for several days because they just backed out of the deal they had.
What they insisted upon, what just passed it, passed is ICE is entirely defunded.
So there's zero funding for ICE.
Now, the good news is ICE is not, in fact, defunded.
Because when we passed the reconciliation bill last year,
We plussed up a ton of funding for ICE.
We funded ICE for the next three years because we anticipated that the Democrats were going to be extreme and radical.
And so ICE is going to – the irony is during the shutdown, ICE was funded the whole time.
the Democrats were hurting everybody else because they were mad about ICE.
But what just passed has zero funding for ICE, which means not only did they insist they weren't going to put funding for ERO, they also didn't put funding for Homeland Security Investigations, HSI.
HSI, do you know what the responsibility of HSI is?
What's that?
Investigating transnational crime, terrorism...