Senate Cannot Claim To Address National Security Without Restoring Border Security

Floor Speech

"It's been nearly eight weeks since President Biden submitted his supplemental funding request and identified four key national security priorities.

For eight weeks, Senate Republicans have been working hard to produce legislation that takes appropriate action on all four fronts -- helping Ukraine defeat Putin in Europe, helping Israel fight Iranian terror in the Middle East, helping Asian partners deter Chinese aggression, and helping the men and women of Border Patrol get the crisis at our southern border under control.

At the same time, we've had to spend several weeks now trying to convince some of our Democratic colleagues not to tank the entire effort just because they wish a Democratic President had not put border security in his request.

A number of Senate Republicans have been working in good faith to make sure that supplemental legislation makes substantive policy changes at the border, instead of just throwing money at the problem.

Meanwhile, we've had to explain to members of President Biden's own party why the border security issue he included in his proposal was not extraneous to America's national security.

So, here we are. Some very important conversations are ongoing.

And here's the bottom line: The Senate cannot claim to address major national security challenges without a solution to the one we're facing on the southern border. We can't pretend to be serious about threats facing America and our allies without fixing the broken system that lets 10,000 illegal aliens cross our border in a single day.

Now, Mr. President, I'm serious. Senate Republicans are serious. And I hope our colleagues are as well."

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