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Henry Cuellar: “The reconciliation added 3,000 agents to this [Border…”

Featuring: Henry Cuellar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 28

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Rep Cuellar Speaks During House Appropriations Oversight Hearing with Secretary Markwayne Mullin

Published | Video Starts at 04:58

The reality is the $260 billion that we added, it's going to run out. It's going to run out in three years. And when we talk about hiring the 21,500 Border Patrol agents, and as you know, The reconciliation added 3,000 agents to this [Border Patrol]. But at the end of this, we gotta annualize their salary. So again, we got a lot of issues that we certainly want to look at. (04:58–05:13)

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