Well. while I respect my friends argument. it is quite artful. but not every dollar spent by the Federal Government goes to terrorism. as the suggestion would be. Let us be real here in this discussion. We will leave $7.44 billion in the Federal building fund. and in that fund the vast majority of those dollars are spent for housing Federal office workers. not Border Patrol. and to suggest that somehow that if this cut takes place we are going to be bombarded by immigrants is a great stretch. artful perhaps. but a tremendous stretch. What we are really talking about. we are talking about delaying perhaps for a year expanded Federal bureaucracies and the square footage they have in their Federal offices and office buildings scattered all across America. We are talking about suggesting that that delay in expanding the square footage for Federal office workers. as hard as they work and I respect them a bunch. is something that we ought to figure is a commonsense thing to do. instead of cutting $260 million when people are living in substandard housing that has an $18 billion backlog.
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