Senator Roger Marshall

Well, Vince, I wish I had a great explanation, and I really don't, and I don't pretend to have one.

All I can tell you is that the Democrats do not want to fund ICE.

They don't want to fund DHS.

They want these tens of millions of people that are in this country illegally, they want to give them a path to citizenship and a path to vote.

So we're just beating our head against the wall.

Remember, it was 30 days before, 30 days after they shut down DHS that they were willing to even sit down and talk to us.

I think they've proven, they've proven that we overestimated that we could get 10 of them across the aisle and join us in funding DHS or ICE.

We're just at an impasse.

So we need to work on a reconciliation bill.

It'll take them two weeks, them, Leader Thune, John Thune, Speaker Johnson, the White House, to figure out what that reconciliation package looks like.

As soon as they get it together, we'll come back and vote on it.

Yeah, because, well, no one's on vacation.

Yeah, you know, I'm in the middle of my 105-county tour.

I'm back here meeting the people of Kansas.

We were getting nothing done in Washington.

Insanity doing the same thing over, expecting a different result.

When you're in the minority, when you're in the minority of the Senate, it gives you the advantage.

So what they can do is we tried to drag this out as best we could with them.

But when you're in the minority, you can ask for quorum calls.

You can ask to put amendments on the floor, forcing the majority to stick around.