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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

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Delighted to have you.

Thanks to the men of heritage in Atlanta last night. I did a fundraiser for them. Hung out with a group of guys. The event was supposed to last from 6 to 9. And about 11 o'clock, we all looked at our watches and said, oh, we've been here quite a while. I didn't get home until almost 1 o'clock this morning, and I had a ton of fun.

Great, great school. If you were looking for a small classical Christian school in the Atlanta

area, Heritage Prep is a fantastic place. Happy to help that school. Great, great people there

last night. Fun time. Now, we got to begin with TSA because there is news. There actually

is breaking news happening right now as we start the show today. The United States Senate has

agreed to a plan where the Democrats will give up their reform for ICE funding or ICE reform.

The Republicans will not make them fund ICE and will instead redirect the hundreds of billions of dollars already given to ICE for all of ICE's purposes.

So remember in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ICE was funded that they would normally have a $20 billion budget. They were given

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