House Dem Caucus Chair: Don't Want to Shut Government Down Over ICE, Republicans 'Want to Shut the Government Down'

House Dem Caucus Chair: Don’t Want to Shut Government Down Over ICE, Republicans ‘Want to Shut the Government Down’


On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) said Democrats aren’t willing to shut the government down over ICE and “the Republicans are the ones that want to shut the government down, and they continue to talk about this.”

Co-host John Berman asked, “How do you hold ICE accountable with funding? Is this something you’d be willing to shut the government down over?”

Aguilar answered, “No. And clearly, the Republicans are the ones that want to shut the government down, and they continue to talk about this. What we want to do is we want to fund Homeland Security to do the right things. But it’s very clear, in the one big, ugly law that Donald Trump signed, ICE received

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