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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of Senate Republican leadership and a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” with Larry Kudlow to discuss government funding and immigration reform.
HIGHLIGHTS:
ON THE POTENTIAL FOR A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: “There are conversations going, I think, between both the leadership and the great subcommittee chairs and the chair of the Appropriations Committee. I mean, the preferred route here is to move forward with the six bills that came over from the House, make those votes by Friday, no shutdown. The other option, I think that's been talked about is to separate the Homeland Security and pass the five bills. If that would occur, Homeland Security could be in a shutdown, which would be a perilous situation when you consider that TSA, Coast Guard, Secret Service, FEMA, as we look outside another storm approaching. So, I think hopefully cooler heads will prevail here, we'll have some concessions working with the White House in terms of maybe some of the parameters around ICE and ICE arrests. You know, the Democrats laid out what they want. It tells me, if they're telling us what they want in a more substantive way, that we may be able to get there by Friday. That's my hope.
ON LOCAL MINNESOTA OFFICIALS DISREGARDING FEDERAL LAW: “I think when the mayor of Minneapolis comes out and says, ‘we're going to disregard federal law in any form or fashion,’ I mean that, to me, is breaking the law. And I think that we would, you know, the American people want violent criminals that are here illegally taken off the street and deported. That was the president's mission. That's what he's been following through on.”
ON THE POTENTIAL FOR BROADER IMMIGRATION REFORM: “In the past Trump administration, you all came forward with a bill that we could have moved forward on, but it was obstructed by the Democrats, basically for political reasons. They didn't want the president to get the win. And you know, which would have been a win for the entire country, I think, one of the one of the really dangerous after effects of something like this, if you're not going to let your local law enforcement and your state law enforcement. If you're going to pit law enforcement against law enforcement and encourage that, you're really, I think, deflating the American people's trust in their own local law enforcement. And who wants to get into law enforcement when this is the way you're treated by the leaders in the Senate or, you know, in the cities and the governor's seat, so I am concerned about that as an after effect. But you're right, if we could come up with something comprehensive that would certainly move us in the right direction.”
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