Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time. It is the border. It is the border. It is the border. We have heard about messaging. We have heard about managing, all of that sort of stuff, and still here we are. The bill under consideration this morning provides $64.8 billion for the Department of Homeland Security. When we hear about turning our backs, that is an increase of $2.9 billion above the fiscal year 2024 level. The bill prioritizes investments that make the border--remember, it is about the border--more secure and makes appropriate cuts to policies and programs that, quite frankly, we don't think work. When we talk about value judgments and stuff like that, if you think the record on the southern border has been a successful thing for immigration, we respectfully disagree. We have heard from the professionals in the field, our Border Patrol agents and CBP officers who are being crushed dealing with, dare I say, an unprecedented flow of migrants day after day. This bill supports them through real policy change, not just words. Our colleagues across the aisle are content to treat the border crisis as an issue that can be managed. They throw huge sums of money at a problem the failed policies created. It does not work. What do I mean? You have the flow across the border, and now it has become a problem everywhere else in the country. What do school districts do? What do housing people do? What do law enforcement people do?…”