First. it strips emergency funding to tackle devastating wildfires that the President has requested because the States have requested it. Second. it takes $407 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agencys disaster relief fund. money which would be used to help people who have been devastated by wildfires and other natural disasters. Madam Speaker. if we had passed immigration reform a year ago with the bill that passed the Senate on a bipartisan basiswhich on this floor. we have been denied a vote on for more than 380 dayswe would not be looking at a crisis on the border the way we are today. But that is the difficulty we have. When you dont fix the broken immigration system. this is what you encounter. And these piecemeal approaches arent going to solve anything. We are going to be right back at it in September.
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