Sen. Kennedy: Dems Offered to Open up Everything But ICE, Trump Said ‘No Deals with Dems’

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KENNEDY: "So Senator Cruz and I came up with a plan. We said, look, it’s a two-step process. The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. Ted and I said, 'OK, let’s accept their offer,' and then, at the same time, we would offer a bill for reconciliation where we don’t need any Democratic votes to do whatever we wanted to do with ICE. And that way we’re out of the shutdown and DHS is back open. We submitted that, Senator Thune submitted that to Trump. As is his right, he said no, no deals with the Democrats. So we’re back to square one.”