Henry Cuellar: “If you look at the last two appropriation bills dealing with…”

“I think what we ought to do is if we're going to spend our time, let's look at what policy changes we need to address. Where do we put the funding to address this? I mean, you know, If you look at the last two appropriation bills dealing with Homeland, where we added $2.5 billion, that's a 15% increase. Except for five Republicans that are still here in the House. Except for five, all the other Republicans voted giving money for border patrol races, giving monies for hiring new border patrol technology at the border.” (00:34–00:44)

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