If I am on a Northern Border and somebody asks me to become a trainer--and, by the way, I applaud the fact that you guys are using Border Patrol Agents to train with--there is no way I am going to take a reduction in pay to come here.
Tester emphasizes the importance of fair compensation for trainers in Border Patrol.
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I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.
There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.
I would say two things. Number one this administration has totally blown the opportunity to make government more efficient by going in with a -- with a -- with a meat cleaver and just hack up agencies.
I think it's really important for food security. The folks -- this is a ban against China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, folks who don't want to see us exist anymore as a nation.
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