On the recordDecember 6, 2023
You cannot overstate the harm being done and the damage to our country by this border invasion. It is a border invasion. As we have had hearings on this issue in the Budget Committee or in the Education and the Workforce Committee, my friends across the aisle don't like that I call it a border invasion. Mind you, they don't care about the border invasion. They just don't like me to call it a border invasion. This is on purpose. This is intentional. Every resource and every effort directed to the border over these past 3 years from this administration has been with the intent to get as many illegals, as quickly as possible and as successfully as possible, into the country. To your point, why would we continue to fund and give billions of dollars a month--hundreds of billions of dollars a month to a lawless administration that is perpetrating this kind of harm on the country? I would submit that never in the history of the country has our own President done more to intentionally harm the United States than what is happening with this border. {time} 2000 I will say it again. Never in the history of the country has our own President done more to intentionally harm the United States than what this President has done with the border. Give me an example of something that comes close. The American people are counting on us. They gave us the majority a year ago because we ran on fiscal responsibility. We have not met that responsibility.…





