We could have brought forward a clean Homeland Security Appropriations bill. allowed Members to improve it. to make cuts. to balance our budget deficit. to move things from programs that didnt work to programs that did. We could have brought forth a real jobs bill addressing the needs of working families. Instead. what the Republicans have chosen to do is to play politics and jeopardize the safety of our country and our homeland security over a debate that they want to have with regard to immigration without offering any solutions. One of the things that I took away from the meeting in the Rules Committee last night. in the testimony from Members on both sides of the aisle. is that nobody thoughtDemocrats or Republicansthat this Republican bill that defunded DACA and undid the executive action would actually solve our broken immigration system. Republicans and Democrats acknowledged it wouldnt. So rather than playing politics with our defense of our homeland. why dont we roll up our sleeves and get to work to actually fix our broken immigration system and replace it with one that works? Now. look. the bill provides for consideration of the Homeland Security bill. but everybody knows it is not a serious attempt at funding the Department of Homeland Security. There is a manufactured crisis. the first step in a suretofail legislative process that the President himself has said he would veto.
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