He repeated it over and over
and over again during the campaign. But now, House Republicans want to
take $1.6 billion of hard-earned tax dollars from millions of Americans
to fund it. Let me point out, Mr. Speaker, this $1.6 billion is only targeted at
74 miles of the border: two small tracts in Texas and one small tract
in California. And how did this provision on the border wall make its way into this
minibus of appropriations bills? It was literally lifted out of the
Homeland Security appropriations bill and its few sentences air-dropped
into this package. Where is the rest of the Homeland Security bill, Mr.
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