‘It Is Time To Secure Our Borders’: Nick Langworthy Promotes National Security Appropriations Bills

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During House floor remarks on Wednesday, Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) spoke about appropriations bills to address the ongoing national security crisis.

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00:00Thank you Mr. Speaker, thank you to the gentleman from Georgia for yielding the time.

00:06The measures under the rule before us today are about securing our nation, securing our

00:09borders and standing up to our adversaries who would love nothing more than to do us

00:15harm.

00:16This week, House Republicans will address the ongoing national security crisis by considering

00:21three critical appropriations bills.

00:23The Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, the Fiscal Year 2025 Defense Appropriations

00:29Act and the Fiscal Year 2025 State Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations

00:34Act.

00:35These bills aim to secure our borders, bolster our national defense and strengthen our global

00:40standing amongst our adversaries.

00:42Under the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, we are funding for actual

00:47border security, something my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have time and

00:52again refused to support.

00:54This bill includes funding for 22,000 additional Border Patrol agents and $600 million for

01:01the construction of the southern border wall.

01:04My own district has had a front row seat to this administration's disastrous border policies.

01:10Not only has the Biden border policy coupled with New York State's sanctuary policies allowed

01:16for a flood of illegal immigrants into our cities, towns and communities, but our northern

01:21border has seen a surge of illegal crossings like never before.

01:25I've talked to the Buffalo sector of the Border Patrol and I know firsthand that these

01:30agents need Congress to have their backs and to give them the tools they need to do their

01:35jobs safely and effectively.

01:38Mr. Speaker, 143 individuals from the FBI's terror watch list have been apprehended at

01:45our northern border.

01:46That is twice as many that have been apprehended at the southern border.

01:50And that's just the ones that have been caught.

01:53This administration's open border policies have turned every state into a border state,

01:57in every town into a border town, jeopardizing the safety and the security of every American.

02:03The Homeland Security bill also provides $822 million for transportation and removal operations

02:11and $300 million for border security technology, all essential to removing dangerous criminals

02:18from our country and securing our borders.

02:20Mr. Speaker, it is time for action.

02:23It is time to secure our borders, support our allies, put American interests and safety

02:27first.

02:28I urge my colleagues to support this rule and the critical legislation that it brings

02:33forward.

02:34Thank you and I yield back, Mr. Speaker.

‘It Is Time To Secure Our Borders’: Nick Langworthy Promotes National Security Appropriations Bills

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