Joe Manchin: “If anything, I'd rather cut 200,000 contractors and keep the 100,000 uniforms and use the support of our National Guard.”

We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.

Let's see who's involved. Let's wait until we see who all the players are.

You did not elect the comforter in chief. You elected a basically commander in chief, and he's hit the ground running.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 5301 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will…