president himself played a critical role in getting the deal across the finish line. his message, emphasize the harm that families, businesses and communities would feel if a shutdown went ahead. the final hurdle to come, and that is a full union vote. also this, an immigration battle escalating near the vice president s doorstep. buses of migrants sent from texas dropped off just feet from her residence in washington overnight. this happening a day after officials on martha s vineyard were sent scrambling after dozens of migrants unexpectedly arrived there. the office of florida governor ron desantis says it was he who sent two planes to the massachusetts island with more than 50 migrants on board. you see a picture there. cnn s steve contorno live in washington. i saw a group of migrants dropped off in front of the vice president s residence in d.c. this morning as well. what s happening? reporter: the governor of florida has been promising for months really that he i
florida has been promising for months really that he is going to do something about the migrants that he sees at the border. he s worried about them coming to the state of florida. there are so many migrants communities and communities from latin america and south america already here. he has been threatening for months saying that, if the biden administration doesn t act on immigration, then he is going to send he s going to do what all these other republican governors have done like governor abbott in texas and start selling these people into democratic strongholds and sanctuary cities. that s what he says he is doing here. we don t know a lot of the details about how these flights were arranged. the governor s office has only said that they helped pay for these flights through a program that set aside $12 million earlier this year just for this purpose, but there s been already swift condemnation in florida for these actions. within hours of this coming to light, the florida democ