Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024

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Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, several months ago, a bipartisan group of my colleagues and I introduced a bill, the Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act, and that is exactly what we will be voting on today.

First, as far as defending our border from cartels, there are 200 kids today dying in this country from fentanyl that we can trace directly back to that southern border. That is the equivalent of a Boeing 747 aircraft crashing every single day and nobody caring about it. We have to fix our southern border.

Second, we are also going to defend the borders of our democratic allies, Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine--Taiwan and Ukraine from being invaded by communist dictators, and Israel from being invaded by terrorists.

I would hope we could all agree on those two concepts in this Chamber. We have to defend borders and defend democracies.

Mr. Speaker, you can't pick and choose which one of those you are going to support. That is hypocritical and intellectually inconsistent.

We need to defend our border and the borders of Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, all of the above. I am proudly going to vote for all three.

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