It would have provided $20 billion in extra emergency funding to buy 50,000 detention beds, to hire 4,300 new asylum officers, 100 new immigration judges, 1,500 border patrol agents, 1,000 new deportation officers.
Murphy details the funding and resources proposed in the Bipartisan Border Bill.
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Accordingly, we insist that the Postal Service abandon this proposed regulation and return to its core mission of providing universal postal services to every American. The Constitution and federal law demand nothing less.
The price of this war is being plainly paid first and foremost by our soldiers, who are being put in harm's way for a war that is making America weaker every day.
Once an administration begins punishing Americans for how they vote, the threat extends far beyond these projects: no state, community, business, or worker can trust that the federal government will apply the law fairly.
Can any of my Republican colleagues defend the president selling announcements from the White House for $100,000 a month, in the middle of a war?
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