White House Responds To House GOP Resolution Condemning Kamala Harris As ‘Border Czar’

5 months ago

During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Vice President Kamala Harris’ policies on the southern border.

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00:00One of the first major initiatives that the President asked the Vice President to lead

00:03was to oversee the diplomatic work with Central American countries as it relates to flows

00:08of migration.

00:09The House Rules Committee yesterday approved a resolution that will go to a vote of the

00:14full House strongly condemning the Biden administration and its borders are the Vice President for

00:19failure to secure the border.

00:20Do you have a response to that?

00:22And how would the President characterize what he views as the Vice President's accomplishments

00:26in terms of overseeing that portfolio?

00:28I mean, look, as we speak, you have congressional Republicans, they continue doing their continue

00:34with their month long blockade of critical resources that we need for the border, whether

00:39it's ice, border patrol.

00:42And this is what they've been doing.

00:45This is what they've been doing.

00:46Let's not forget the bipartisan, a really tough, important bipartisan piece of legislation

00:51or a deal that came out of the Senate that we were able to get done.

00:56And they got in their own way.

00:58They got in their own way because they listened to the former president, because they thought

01:01it would help Joe Biden.

01:03So they continue to block critical resources.

01:07That's what they have done for the past three and a half years.

01:09The President is looking for ways to fund to fund security funding to get to the border.

01:15Right.

01:16And he's done that in a record way.

01:18And so we're going to continue to fight to make sure that the Border Patrol agents get

01:22what they need and get more personnel, thousands of new personnel at the border.

01:27That's what we're going to do.

01:29The president announced new decisive executive orders to secure the border on lawful crossings

01:34have dropped by more than 50 percent.

01:37And that's the president acting without Congress by 50 percent.

01:42They are now lowered at this point than they were in 2019 and lower than when the former

01:47president left office.

01:48And the president's doing that on his own, on his own.

01:51They get in the way.

01:53He finds other ways to to make things happen.

01:56That's been the story of this administration.

White House Responds To House GOP Resolution Condemning Kamala Harris As ‘Border Czar’

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