Political Quotes

“today, the Senate is going to vote on whether to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to a package of appropriations bills that will include the Senate Defense appropriations bill, and the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS) appropriations bill. There are many things in these bills that I support, but I am going to strongly urge all Senators to vote no. I am disappointed that the majority leadership has taken this step. They bowed to demands by President Trump, and that is continuing to delay funding for our troops. They insist on including in this bill authority for President Trump to raid American tax dollars from our military and their families. President Trump wants to raid that money to pay for his wall, after he had given his solemn word that Mexico would pay for it, and that is not acceptable. Because he cannot keep his word, he has already raided $6.2 billion from the Department of Defense this year alone for his border wall. He did all of that without congressional approval of either Republicans or Democrats. He diverted $2.6 billion from the fiscal year 2019 Defense Appropriations Act. Then he took another $3.6 billion from military construction projects for his southern border wall.…”