Henry Cuellar: “This provides funding in the amount of $550 million increase…”

“… you know, there were cuts, but we are providing money there to make sure that we fight the threats to our critical infrastructure that we're seeing across. And again, finally, This provides funding in the amount of $550 million increase to the Coast Guard because again, we got to make sure the Coast Guard gets the funding, especially when it comes to funding the drug introduction. So again, I say this, is this bill perfect? No. But a continuing resolution does provide no oversight and the department also gets ice, gets a funding from the reconciliation.” (03:30–03:46)

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