So I think the president is now taking executive action because he's frustrated, as am I and many of my colleagues, that we're not getting it done in Congress, which is where it belongs. We did appropriate almost $20 billion in funding to make sure that we are increasing border patrol. bor patrol, to make sure that we are investing and increasing our devices that can detect illegal drugs and that kind of thing. And apparently we're not going to figure out how to spend it. (01:01–02:09)
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Asserts that Congress appropriated nearly $20 billion for border patrol funding.
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