Ted Cruz

human trafficking smuggling cyber crime financial fraud child exploitation that's what hsi does it's like out catching terrorists and every democrat said we will not vote to fund the folks catching terrorists and catching human traffickers that's where the democrats are and then on customs and border patrol

They insisted that the funding be reduced about $6 billion, reduced from $17.7 billion to $11 billion.

So those were their demands.

They ended up getting their demands, but it is the most short-term Pyrrhic victory because we're going to do a reconciliation.

It takes about six weeks to do a reconciliation, so it's not an immediate process because you've got to have the House has to pass a budget resolution, the Senate has to pass a budget resolution, but we will get it done.

And I believe what will happen is we'll pass a 10-year budget that pluses up both of them.

And I will say it was exactly what I had urged two weeks ago is where we ended up right now.

Now, I will tell you, let's go back to what you said a minute ago, which is the president signed the order saying he was going to fund TSA.

Do you know why he did so and why there was an urgency to do so tonight?

Well, let me bring you in what was happening.

So at lunch today on Thursday, the Democrats were saying they may cut a deal.

So we had a vote at 1.30 p.m.

that at our lunch, we were like, the Democrats may vote.

Yes, we may have a deal and this might be done.

It turned out we waited all afternoon, and the Democrats just couldn't vote yes.

They were not able to get to a vote.

And here's the problem.

We'd been seeing wait times increase at airports all across the country.

There were serious and credible threats from the TSA union that tomorrow, Friday, there was going to be a nationwide walkout, that all of the TSA agents were going to stay home.

I don't know if that's right.