On the recordAugust 6, 2022
Madam President, the historic crisis that the Biden administration has created on the southern border by failing to enforce our laws is threatening the national security of the United States every day. Savage cartels own our U.S. border now. This fiscal year, more than 2 million people have illegally entered the United States. Drugs are pouring into our communities and killing thousands and thousands of Americans. It must end now. Sadly, Democrats are still doing nothing to support the Border Patrol or actually securing the border. Instead, they want to supersize the IRS and add 87,000 more agents to hunt down and audit even more families and small businesses. My amendment says that before one additional IRS agent is hired, we must give Border Patrol the support it needs and double its forces with 18,000 more Border Patrol agents. It is time to first secure the border and second, stop the Democrats from supersizing the IRS. I urge my colleagues to vote for my commonsense amendment. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The senior Senator from Oregon.
