The Trump administration has been blaming congressional Democrats for the government shutdown, which is resulting in long airport lines and unpaid Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers. But GOP Sen. John Kennedy revealed that President Donald Trump rejected a deal that would have ended the shutdown.
Kennedy explained, “Senator Cruz and I came up with a plan. We said, ‘Look, it’s a two-step process.’ The Democrats offered, ‘Open up everything except ICE.'” Kennedy is not related to JFK or the Kennedy family, just to clarify. He continued, “Ted and I said, ‘Okay, let’s accept their offer.’ And then, at the same time, we would offer a bill for reconciliation, where we don’t need any Democratic votes to do whatever we wanted to do with ICE.”
