A budget that makes only minimal new investment to combat fentanyl will fail to make the progress we need.
Christopher Murphy
The Public Record
This budget, even with this proposed increase, is not enough to secure our border and manage the unusually high levels of immigration to the United States.
Thank you, Senator Murkowski, for your commitment and vigilance on this issue.
It would have made a massive down payment on fixing our broken border and immigration authorities.
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.
The Bipartisan Border Bill, negotiated by myself, Senator Lankford, Senator Sinema, with help from Senator McConnell and Senator Graham.
This includes the ongoing fentanyl crisis; fentanyl is responsible for more than 200 deaths every single day.
One of the ways that we convince young men and women to come join the Coast Guard is to make sure that they have adequate living conditions.





