WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. John Thune issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined America Reports on Fox News and The Hugh Hewitt Show.
On the importance of funding the Department of Homeland Security:
"[Democrats] ... negotiated a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and then subsequently walked away from it and blew up the package of appropriation bills that [Republicans and Democrats] had carefully put together ... Then they wanted a separate funding bill for DHS that was a continuing resolution that would allow for some time to negotiate pieces of a bill that might ultimately pass, and then they walked away from that."
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"But at the end of the day, [Republicans] ...