Political Quotes

“I want to help my colleague out on the other side. Everybody in this country knows that Donald Trump is running everything. Nothing happens in Washington without Donald Trump's approval. Legislation is not passed unless he agrees with it. If they were strong enough, they would admit that. Republicans run the executive branch. They run both bodies of the legislative branch, but now you blame Democrats on your inability to get things done. Let me help you out. This resolution does not pay one TSO, FEMA, or CISA employee. It doesn't pay a mortgage. It doesn't pay a car note. It doesn't buy groceries. Quit pretending like you are doing something to help the people. Before this debate is over, I am going to give you a chance to put your mouth where it ought to be on this resolution. But for this point, HSI's mission is not to walk in airports and assist ICE. That is not why they were created. They are an investigatory body. They ought to be out here in communities finding bad people. You have changed their mission. You--your President--has changed their mission, so they are now doing things for which they were not trained to do. For the record, our loyal and faithful TSOs who you say you love, their training is from 4 to 6 months to make sure that individuals who get on planes don't have anything in their possession that would bring it down. Our ICE agents are trained for 47 days.”