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

Floor Speech

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Mrs. TORRES of California. Mr. Speaker, the U.S. House of Representatives is being used as a front for Republican-sponsored lawlessness.

The Senate handed us a bipartisan deal to keep this country safe, but Speaker Johnson, shackled by his own extremism, called it a joke.

They want to talk about a joke, Mr. Speaker? It is a joke that we are being asked to hand a blank check to an agency that has turned into a regime secret police.

This is not border security. It is extortion. Republicans are holding the paychecks of hardworking TSA officers hostage to bankroll an agency that kidnaps U.S. children and dumps them across the borders, terrorizes our neighborhoods with zero accountability, and executes American citizens in cold blood.

My constituents don't want stopgap cowardice. They want a government that doesn't terrorize them.

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Mrs. TORRES of California. We are not just debating a budget. We are debating whether this House has the backbone to stand up to an administration that is addicted to cruelty.

If Members want to fund violence, do it on your own time. Do not do it with the blood and the tax dollars of hardworking American people. Bring the bipartisan Senate bill to the floor. Stop the games, stop the sabotage, or get out of our way because we will win these elections, and we will take back America.

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