Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there are a variety of issues that I think ought to be talked about, at least once, before we leave for our districts this Friday. They are topics I don't think the press is paying enough attention to, so one more time, I beg them to pay attention to these topics. The first one is the border. Our fiscal year wraps up on September 30. Right now, we have 11 of the 12 months in the books for fiscal year 2024. Now, something that I think has been underreported, we have one more time hit the all-time high of the number of people coming into this country who are--other than traditional means, I will say--coming across the southern border, in August, with 154,000 people. We have now hit 2,700,000 people for the year as a whole. This is by comparison with Donald Trump in his last entire year, which was a little under 100,000. Part of that year was COVID, but nevertheless, even the next year after that was well under the million total. It is a difficult number to get an exact count on. It includes people who have been released at the border. It includes what they call got- aways, which are a more dangerous class of people. It includes people who have entered the country on what we call the CBP One app, which is something I don't think President Biden had the ability or constitutional authority to do. It includes other people who he has allowed across under the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan program.…”