Now. this motion is ineffectual. because only the Appropriations Committee can actually fund increases in any account. whether it is the Department of Homeland Security or anyplace else. Led by Republicans. the House and Senate Appropriations Committee have done a stellar job in increasing the funding for new agents. Over this year and next. our appropriators will increase Border Patrol strength by 2.700 agents. This is close to the maximum number of new agents who can realistically be recruited and adequately trained in this time span. Now. the other side can have a pieinthesky number. thousands or hundreds of thousands and the like. but we have a limited capacity to recruit and train new agents. and the appropriators are very close to the max in doing this.
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