Sen. Van Hollen: Republicans Refuse to Fund Critical Agencies Because We Won’t Give ICE and Its Lawless Operations a Blank Check

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VAN HOLLEN: “Do you know what the Democratic proposal would do that’s offered by Senator Murray? Pay all those people so they can do the work that they need to do on behalf of the American people and get paid for the good work that they do. That’s what our proposal does. It does what Senate Republicans claim on their social media posts that they want to do, that they want to pay these 100,000 federal employees. But today, through their votes and their actions, they’re actually saying the opposite. They’re saying they want to continue to deny funding for those particular agencies because we won’t give ICE and its lawless operations a blank check. And we’re not going to give ICE a blank check. The American people don’t want us to give a blank check to ICE. But for goodness sakes, let’s not penalize folks at TSA and FEMA and the Coast Guard. And let’s not penalize the American people by hampering those agencies and preventing them from fully doing their good work on behalf of the country.”