Chip Roy: “We spend approximately $58 billion--I don't have it right in front of…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2022

We spend approximately $58 billion--I don't have it right in front of me--a year for the Department of Homeland Security, $55 billion, $56 billion. We just approved earlier this year $58 billion for Ukraine, and now there is an additional $12 billion in the continuing resolution that passed out of the Senate today and is now sitting in the House. That puts it at almost $70 billion, which is well more than the entire annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security for the United States.

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Chip Roy

Republican · Texas

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Sep 29, 2022

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