Political Quotes

“Today marks the 20th day of what has been a completely unnecessary, incredibly harmful, and politically motivated shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, an Agency whose core is to protect our citizens from terrorism, from crime, from cyber risk, and from natural disasters. The question is, Why are we here? Why is the entire government not open? We find ourselves at this moment because my colleagues on the other side of the aisle oppose our efforts to clean up the immigration crisis that they created. This is purely about politics, not policy. At a moment when global tensions are high and President Trump is rightly carrying out a strategic operation in the Middle East to make America more secure, it is more important than ever to ensure that the Agency tasked with defending our homeland remains fully funded and fully operational without delay. The situation in Iran has direct ties to the security of our southern border. Think about it. More than 1,500 Iranian nationals were detained trying to enter this country illegally under President Biden. And do you know what? The Biden-Harris administration released about 50 percent of those individuals into our homeland, many of them with suspected ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also known as the IRGC.”