Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we have heard over and over again that what awaits is a manufactured crisis. The American people have some experience now dealing with manufactured crises. Since January of this year, they have seen a never-ending array of manufactured crises. Look, I live in Texas. It is a border State. There are a lot of problems on the southern border. We hear about it every time we turn on the news. The border wall was supposed to be built. It was to help that problem. But there are stacks and stacks of material to build that border wall that are just sitting because the current administration has put a pause on all of that and said we are not building any more. What is going to happen to all of that material, that material that was paid for with borrowed money that, yes, is part of the debt? What is going to happen to that? It is going to be stolen; it is going to be diverted to some other use, probably to no good end. But had that wall been in place, maybe the streams of people that were coming across the border at Del Rio a couple of weeks ago could have been interrupted. The Dallas Morning News, on Sunday, had a story about how 250 buses transported Haitians from Central America up to the lower Rio Grande Valley. Could our Department of Homeland Security not have had some visibility on who was renting 250 buses to bring the 15,000 people to the southern border? Maybe they could have spent some of that money in that regard.…”