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On the recordFebruary 12, 2024
Madam President, open the champagne, pop the cork, the Senate Democrat leader and the Republican leader are on their way to Kyiv. They have got $60 billion they are bringing. I don't know if it will be cash in pallets, but they are taking your money to Kyiv. Now, they didn't have much time, really no time and no money to do anything about our border. We are being invaded. A literal invasion is coming across our border--800,000 people came illegally last month--and all they had time to do in the Senate was get the money, get the cash pallets, load the planes, get the champagne ready, and fly to Kyiv. On Friday, they will take the $60 billion to Kyiv, crack the champagne; and meanwhile, each day, between 5 to 10,000 people come across the border illegally. Now they put up a sham bill, and they said: You should have taken the sham bill. You should have taken the ruse. We gave you a border bill. But the border bill would allow 5,000 people a day to come across, and then they would declare an emergency. Guess what? The emergency is already here. Madam President, 700,000 people in 2 months is an emergency. Nearly 800,000 people in 2 months is an emergency. But they gave lie to the ruse when they tweeted out their great bullet points on how great this deal was going to be. They tweeted out: The border never closes.…
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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