Kathleen Rice: “Staffing shortages, reassignments, and inadequate training of CBP agents have led to the inhumane and haphazard…”

Just last month, a young man from my district, Joseph Borgen, was the victim of a anti-Semitic assault on the streets of New York.

I am very proud of the workforce development efforts already underway at Stony Brook University and Farmingdale State College in my home State of New York.

I have heard from Jewish and interfaith organizations that the present funding levels are clearly insufficient to meet the current needs.

Colleagues, this committee, Democrats and Republicans, have really shined the light on the lack of transparency and the consistency around COVID-19 data during the pandemic.