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Lawmaker blames Democrats for DHS shutdown, introduces budget resolution to fund homeland security
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Summary
A lawmaker told the U.S. House that Democratic colleagues had shut down Department of Homeland Security funding and introduced a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions to restore homeland-security funding; the figures cited in the speech were presented by the speaker and not verified in the transcript.
A lawmaker addressing the House said Democratic colleagues had "shut the United States government down" and introduced a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions aimed at funding the Department of Homeland Security and other homeland-security priorities.
The lawmaker opened by asking unanimous consent to allow members five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and then delivered an extended statement blaming Democrats for what the speaker called an ongoing shutdown of DHS funding. "They have held the American people hostage and have imperiled the safety of every citizen of this country," the lawmaker said, adding that the Department of Homeland Security had been affected for 74 days.
The speaker criticized proposed reforms that would require a judicial warrant to expel certain noncitizens, saying such a requirement would "effectively stop all deportations" for people the lawmaker characterized as criminal and threatening. The lawmaker described past border problems and said the president's intervention had averted DHS employees going "100 days without pay," framing the resolution as an effort to "restore law and order."
To support claims about risks to agents, the lawmaker cited large percentage increases in threats and assaults against officers: an "8000% increase in death threats," "1300% increase in assaults," and a "3200% increase in vehicular assaults." The lawmaker did not provide sourcing for those figures in the recorded remarks; the transcript contains the figures as statements made by the speaker and they are presented here as such.
The lawmaker also alleged that cartel members have placed bounties on individuals and that violent actors have targeted agents in public. At the end of the statement the speaker said, "we put forward this reconciliation, this budget resolution with reconciliation instructions to fund the people's homeland security," and then yielded the floor. The transcript records the introduction of the budget resolution but does not record a formal motion text, a mover/second, or any subsequent vote.
No additional speakers, responses, or floor votes on the introduced resolution are recorded in the transcript provided. The transcript does not verify the numerical claims cited in the speech; those figures are reported here as assertions made on the House floor.
Next steps: the speaker introduced the budget resolution on the floor; the transcript does not record further action or a recorded vote on the measure.
