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On the recordDecember 23, 2022
This is completely disgusting. Everything about it is disgusting: the fact that it showed up in the middle of the night, the fact that we knew for essentially a year, everybody in this place knew what was coming, that this had to be done. The folks on this side of aisle made sure we were going to do this right before Christmas. We all know what is going to happen. Everybody has got to get home for Christmas, not troops that go overseas. They are not going to be home for Christmas, but you folks are. This is not about America's priorities, this is about your priorities, your personal priorities. You know how we know that? Because your names are on these things. Somebody wrote this. Somebody wrote in there that we are going to protect Tunisia and Egypt's border, but we are not going to do anything to protect our border. Somebody wrote that. Yeah, I know you are all over there talking about it, somebody has got a name attached to that, and you are proud of it. This is a Christmas tree of 7,000 of your priorities, not America's priorities. This does absolutely nothing to fix our border. It does nothing to fix the fire of fentanyl deaths that are raging across the United States of America, absolutely nothing at all. It does nothing to fix the fact that people that I represent can't afford butter, milk, bread, gasoline, and energy. It does nothing to fix any of that. These are about your priorities.…
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania

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