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Austin Scott: “If you stop the funding for Customs and Border Patrol. I…”

Featuring: Austin Scott, Republican | U.S. House Georgia, District 8

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Rep. Scott speaks at a Rules Committee Hearing on the need to fully fund DHS

Published | Video Starts at 06:39

ICE has $75 billion now 85% of those folks are being paid because the administration said we're going to pay these people. But we're going to hold hostage TSA people, Coast Guard, FEMA and cybersecurity. If you stop the funding for Customs and Border Patrol. I said yes, floodgates again. And that's the Democrats proposal. Okay. Would you like to. Do you have any. Can you. Would you address. You're addressing that to Mr. Garbarino Gabarino. Yeah. (06:39–06:45)

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Claims that stopping funding for Customs and Border Patrol will open the floodgates, attributing this to the Democrats' proposal.

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