This year we presented an amendment to provide an additional $3.5 billion for border. port aviation and disaster preparedness programs. And I understand that for $1.5 billion. we could give every port on earth the ability to check cargo. The Democrats wanted to pass funding that would support 1.800 new Border Patrol agents. more than the 800 more immigration investigators and 9.000 new detention beds. We authored legislation to fund 500 new radiation monitors to inspect cargo and increase funding for public transportation by twothirds. And it was a Democratic bill that would have given our first responders $600 million more with which to protect themselves as citizens of the country.
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