Bill Lee: “a little more than 3 months ago, Senate Republicans came together and reached something of a conclusion. We concluded it…”

“a little more than 3 months ago, Senate Republicans came together and reached something of a conclusion. We concluded it made a lot of sense to make a commitment to each other and a commitment to those whom we represent and a commitment to those in the other Chamber just down the hall from here that we wouldn't be sending another penny to Ukraine without achieving border security in our own homeland. After all, the conflict in Ukraine is about helping Ukraine maintain its own defensible borders. It is about helping Ukraine with its own national security. Meanwhile, we have a border that to describe it as porous is an insult to porousness. It is a border through which an estimated 10 million people have entered our country unlawfully just over the last 3 years since President Biden took office. And then, now, through the efforts of a faithless few, we are poised to treat our promise to Americans the same way President Biden has treated his solemn oath to protect our country's borders as somehow expedient, expendable, and apparently now expired. We cannot send billions of dollars to Ukraine--many, many tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine--while America's own borders are bleeding, while they are wide open, and while we have many thousands upon thousands of the 10 million or so who have come in over the last 3 years--who are coming in under circumstances that make them highly suspicious, to say nothing of the millions of others who came here.…”