GOP Rep. Mackenzie on Trump's economic and immigration policies
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The partial government shutdown that has stalled funding for the Department of Homeland Security |
| 0:05.0 | has entered day six with no signs of compromise between Congress and the White House. |
| 0:10.0 | The shutdown started last week after congressional Democrats pushed for reforms of the |
| 0:15.0 | Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. |
| 0:18.0 | Our Lisa Desjardin has more on the funding fight. |
| 0:25.8 | Both the House and the Senate are out of town this week, but what they've heard from constituents at home will matter when they return on Monday. One key swing vote belongs to |
| 0:31.5 | freshman Republican Ryan McKenzie. He represents Pennsylvania's 7th District, border in New Jersey. |
| 0:37.4 | It includes the Lehigh Valley and the city of Allentown, and he joins me now. |
| 0:42.3 | Congressman, ICE is a major issue in your district. |
| 0:46.3 | I know that at least one county has said they will not cooperate with ICE. |
| 0:50.3 | There's a detention center coming in the county next door outside of your district. But I want to start with you. |
| 0:56.0 | How do you see this immigration crackdown? |
| 0:58.0 | Do you support it? |
| 1:00.0 | Well, after four years of an open border during the Biden administration, |
| 1:04.0 | we were seeing and feeling the impacts of that illegal immigration flow |
| 1:08.0 | right here in our local community. |
| 1:10.0 | If you go on DHS's website, you can see some of the violent offenders that have been arrested |
| 1:15.1 | in our cities. |
| 1:17.5 | So very heinous individuals that should have been taken off the street. |
| 1:21.7 | And when we do have those people that are detained, we want ICE to be able to appropriately |
| 1:26.1 | pick them up. |
| 1:26.8 | As you mentioned, |
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