Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, first, to address the comment that was made about reluctance on Puerto Rico, it is kind of hard to suggest there is reluctance to help Puerto Rico when we have appropriated more than $90 billion already and want to continue to make sure that Puerto Rico has the relief that they need. Again, over $90 billion of money from the United States Government has already been appropriated. We have other issues that we need to address, including some problems with the money in the bill that was supposed to go to farmers. It has been identified that a lot of that money can't get to the farmers who need it. Many American farms that are going under can't get the help they need. Those problems were identified, and we would like to get that fixed. There were other issues, such as the President's supplemental. The supplemental was $4.5 billion of additional money that is needed to help with this crisis at the border. I know some on the other side are in denial about the crisis, but it is real. We have had in recent weeks days in which on one day, a single day, more than 4,000 illegal crossings occurred multiple times. Secretary Jeh Johnson under President Obama said that when he would get that report every day--it was the first report he would get as Secretary of Homeland Security--of how many people crossed illegally the day before, if more than 1,000 crossed illegally, it was a bad day.…”