User Clip: 190627 Cornyn Criticized House Democrats for Cutting ICE Funding

"The bill they passed earlier this week meets the dollar amount requested by the President, but the substance of the bill shows that House Democrats don't want to send funding where it is actually needed the most. Unlike the Senate's bipartisan bill, the original House bill excluded funding for the Department of Defense, immigration judge teams, and underfunded both Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. This morning, they made a last-ditch effort to inject some of their deeply partisan provisions back into our Senate bipartisan bill. While the House Democrats did increase needed funding in some areas, the newly amended version still includes divisive provisions and reduces funding in areas that the Senate overwhelmingly rejected yesterday. Here is just one example. Democrats in the House cut the Senate bill's appropriation of $21 million for ICE Homeland Security investigations to conduct--get this--human trafficking investigations. So the House wanted close