Providing for Disposition of Senate Amendment to H.R. Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026

Floor Speech

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Mr. McDOWELL. Mr. Speaker, I keep hearing about the need for bipartisanship, but I would just remind my colleagues across the aisle that just yesterday we voted for the fourth time to open the Department of Homeland Security. That was a bipartisan vote where some of their colleagues decided to join us. This is the second government shutdown that these Democrats have caused on the American people, this one for 42 days. That is how long the Democrats have dragged out their second government shutdown.

They have done this while refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Once again, they are showing the American people that their loyalties lie with criminal, illegal aliens and not hardworking Americans.

Democrats are gambling with the safety of our country, all to appease their woke, radical base.

The American people were loud and clear, Mr. Speaker. They wanted secure borders. They wanted to deport criminal, illegal aliens, and they wanted a government that prioritized their safety.

Democrats are telling us exactly what they will do if they ever get the chance. They will reopen our borders. They will reopen the pipeline of deadly fentanyl at our southern border.

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Mr. McDOWELL. Mr. Speaker, they will endanger every American with their reckless policies. People will die.

Tonight, we are voting to do our jobs and to keep Americans safe despite our colleagues across the aisle continuing to do the opposite.

Pay our TSA workers. Fund our immigration enforcement. It is not hard, Mr. Speaker. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill.

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