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WASHINGTON – Majority Whip Tom Emmer today discussed House Republicans’ victory in passing H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, and called on Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden to follow suit. After two years of intentional disregard from the Biden administration, Whip Emmer touted House Republicans’ success in delivering the strongest border security bill since 1996.

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Whip Emmer: “Last week, Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans aced what we’re calling our seventh ‘first big test.’ As some of you may have reported over the last few months, this is the next ‘first big test.’ We did the seventh ‘first big test’ last week by passing the strongest border security bill ever to hit the floor of the House of Representatives. What our members and Speaker McCarthy did was historic. The House had not passed a comprehensive border bill since 1996. But our majority once again rallied together against all odds to deliver for the American people. Thanks to Joe Biden and the Democrats’ malfeasance at the border, more than 10,000 migrants crossed the border illegally in a single day. Migrant children are being abused and exploited, with 85,000 children completely unaccounted for. And the Department of Public Safety has seized more than 300 million lethal doses of fentanyl – that’s enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States. To call this anything but a crisis is either an outright lie or blatant incompetence. House Republicans have provided the blueprint to secure our border and get Biden’s inhumane crisis under control. The blood is on the Biden administration’s hands if they continue to bury their heads in the sand while our communities get overrun by their open-border policies. This border crisis did not come about haphazardly. It happened by design when President Biden fired off a laundry list of executive orders on day one of his presidency to halt construction of the border wall and roll back Trump-era immigration policies that were working. Chuck Schumer and the Biden White House need to pass the Secure the Border Act immediately or be ready to be held accountable for failing to address this crisis head on.”

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