Chuck Schumer: “now on the need to fund the Secret Service, I just heard Leader Thune lashing out. I sympathize with him. He is in a…”

“now on the need to fund the Secret Service, I just heard Leader Thune lashing out. I sympathize with him. He is in a real pickle. He is fighting with his own Republican Party Speaker in the House. His caucus here is factionalized as to what to do, as to how we fund both ICE and CBP and even DHS. They are in a mess. So what does the Republican leader do? He points fingers at Democrats. That is absurd. The idea that Democrats are somehow to blame for this Republican shutdown of DHS is just ridiculous, and Thune and his Republican leadership ought to act like adults and help us solve this problem during serious--serious--times like these, instead of pointing fingers in another direction. At this very moment, funding for Secret Service and so many other Agencies is sitting idly in the House of Representatives, not waiting for Democrats--we don't run the House--waiting for Republicans. And Republicans somehow, especially the rightwing propaganda, just blames Democrats with no logic, no rationale. What Republican rightwing propaganda is saying couldn't be further from the truth. Democrats wanted to fund all of the law-abiding Agencies at DHS, and we worked with Republicans, Leader Thune, here in the House to do it--here in the Senate to do it.”