Chuck Schumer: “Reclaiming my time. I rest my case. What the leader is saying is he will only fund TSA if we will continue to fund--for…”

“Reclaiming my time. I rest my case. What the leader is saying is he will only fund TSA if we will continue to fund--for a short time, for a long time--ICE and Border Patrol, which he knows is gridlocked, which he knows we don't agree with, and so it is clear. He has made it clear. Just fund TSA. That is it. He has a lot of rigamarole attached to funding TSA: but do this, but do that, but do this. You can't win the argument, Leader. It is simple. We are being clear. We are being concise. So the question is very simple. I say to my Republican friends: Support the legislation that is coming on the floor today. And if you do, TSA is funded like that. Every Democrat is for it. My guess is, half to three quarters of the Republicans are wishing they would be for it, but their leadership is insisting on attaching preconditions on ICE negotiations and Border Patrol negotiations. So all I say to my Republican colleagues: Stop the speeches that you care about TSA. Don't talk the talk. Walk the walk. Let the legislation that we are proposing go forward without blocking it, and TSA will be back to work; our lines at the airports will be gone; and then we will have legislation on CISA. Don't talk to us about the need for safety and then block legislation that allows CISA to go through. That is hypocrisy. Just let it go through. And I know that our Republican leadership knows that we have the high ground here, knows that the people are on our side. And why do Republicans do this?”