Continuing Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024

Floor Speech

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Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, the fiscal year ends in 36 hours. This bill funds the government. We have a $2 trillion deficit, $33 trillion debt. This bill cuts spending.

We have a border that is wide open. This bill secures the border.

Those are three simple commonsense things, but the most important of those three is the one that Mr. Diaz-Balart was just talking about, the border situation.

Mr. Speaker, 2021 was the highest number on record for illegal migrants entering the country, the highest year on record until 2022, and that was the highest year on record until this year. That is how bad this is.

Here is the important point: It is not just conservatives, it is not just Republicans talking about securing the border, the mayor of New York said the migrant crisis will ``destroy New York City.''

Everyone in the country knows what needs to be done. This bill does it and does it in a commonsense way. Reasonable cuts in spending to deal with the huge deficit we have, but most importantly it addresses the most pressing issue we have.

The most pressing issue in the country today is the border situation. Everyone in the country knows it, it seems, except Democrats in the United States Congress.

Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote.

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