Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, the Shelter and Services Program is a failed program. It does nothing but facilitate the administration's self- created policy crisis on our border. It is interesting to hear the discussions in terms of now that they are here, we should do something and skip over the whole issue of what has happened in the last 36 months? It is undeniable that the numbers are significantly larger. Once you are here, we have to focus on what we do. When you look at shelter services, we are renting tents. By the way, it is a single vendor. It is not even put out for bid. We spend over a billion something a year just for tents. While it is nice to talk about how we should be good stewards of whoever happens to show up, to ignore how they came to be here in such massive numbers in the last 36 months, to me, it is a bit--and you can fill in the blank. What began as a $30 million effort has ballooned to a $650 million grab bag for nongovernmental organizations to swiftly resettle migrants across the border illegally into our country. Even large city Democrat mayors are screaming: We can't sustain this. We should not be spending money on programs that incentivize illegal immigration. This amendment would directly undercut border security by reducing funds for border wall construction by $600 million. The men and women in the field have told us walls work, and it is time for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to accept that fact.…”