“Our Airports Look Like Walmart on Black Friday”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with Martha McCallum on Fox News to discuss his meeting at the White House to end the DHS shutdown.
Watch the full interview HERE.
Daines on his meeting at the White House on ending the DHS shutdown:
What happened yesterday at the White House was extraordinary. I got to give tremendous credit to President Trump and his team. The president saw what was going to happen right now at this moment in history a year ago when we put an extra $150 billion in the Homeland Security budget as part of the reconciliation package a year ago, anticipating the insanity and the craziness of the far-left who wanted to defund police, defund DHS, defund ICE, and completely go back to open borders. Because we have those extra funds, we were able to create a deal that will allow us to open DHS back up in totality, fund the TSA agents, and make sure the flying public is not having to wait four, five, six hours in airports. These images of airports around the country, it looks like a Walmart on a Black Friday with these huge lines. This is nonsense. The Democrats have blocked this now 14 times in the last 39 days. It’s time to end the nonsense.
Daines on the SAVE Act:
You can’t pass a pure voter ID law only using reconciliation. You can put financial incentives to discourage voter fraud. We can do that. But this will be in addition to what Mike Lee is working on the floor. This fight doesn’t end. We continue that battle on the floor. Again, it took 60 days the last time this process was used to get bipartisan consensus to get to 60 votes to actually get a law passed.
… we’ve had this battle now for two weeks. This is going to continue after we get back, after the Easter break. And this fight continues. The last time they did this, again, it was 60 days. I think this battle will continue. We’re going to have to have the Democrats agreeing with their voters who overwhelmingly support voter ID to realize in many states that Democrats currently serve from, like New Hampshire, they have voter ID laws and citizenship laws. This is just common sense.
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