Speech #1090123812

Now. it was my priority. quite honestly my personal priority. that we pay for this by taking out of the emergency request that came up from the Defense Department a number of items which really are not clearly emergencies. They go more to the core operation of the Defense Department. but I think they were put in the emergency because they thought it was maybe a way to pick up those dollars and not have to worry about them in their basic underlying budget. I suggested the modernity initiative. which is about $3.5 billion and would essentially have paid for this initiative in the Border Patrol. be taken out and replaced by the Border Patrol needs which are an emergency. They are an emergency. The planes are not flying.