Speech #1140008017

Employee hiring and research efforts at the Department would come to a halt. The contracts for a variety of security projects would be stalled and would need to be renegotiated. in all likelihood at a higher cost to taxpayers. For example. a continuing resolution would delay a $600 million contract to build a national security cutter that the Coast Guard urgently needskeep it from being awarded. This cutter is critical to stopping the illegal trafficking off of our shores and ports of entry. including illegal immigration and drug and human trafficking. That is just one example. As any business owner would tell us. this is not the way to run a business.