President Trump had been preparing this week to speed up the process by invoking a war-time authority to deport the criminal migrants before a federal judge temporarily blocked use of that power.

"Change of heart on the filibuster, I see!" the former Arizona senator needled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had lashed out Sinema for not bowing to left-wing pressure to scrap the tool.

Vance told NBC News his team of negotiators by April was “going to be in a place where we can say TikTok is operational, and it’s also operational in a way that’s protective of Americans’ data privacy and America’s national security.”