I am not going to suggest to you that by allocating these $228 million we are going to win the war on drugs. But what I am going to say and suggest. if we want to be honest with ourselves. is that the agencies that we picked out here for the most part are not able to do the kind of job they should be able to do because they are underfunded. When you have a hiring freeze in the FBI. which has now been assigned this responsibility. when you have drug enforcement agents that cannot be put out. when you have a border patrol which is cutting back. when you have a Coast Guard. which is not making the kind of acquisitions they are supposed to. the fact of the matter is the 1988 drug bill was underfunded. Regardless of what plan the drug czar comes forth with in September. we are not implementing new plans or programs. We are saying that this is the barebone minimum we are trying to flesh out.
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