Continuing Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024

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Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, we are here today because we think the government is going to shut down on Sunday. That is because there are supposed to be 12 separate bills that comprise our budget that were supposed to be passed by now. We have passed the four most important. Unfortunately, the Senate has not passed any, so we have to move forward from here.

We don't know what the shutdown means. I hope the press is on the ball and pays careful attention if anything is shut down that President Trump did not shut down a few years ago. There is a lot of flexibility for Presidents to show if they are compassionate or not. If there is anything shut down that President Trump didn't shut down, it is something we have to talk about.

Let's look at the problems we have in this country right now, two big problems. The first is what is going on at the border. We used to have about 10,000 cross the border. We are now over 200,000. We are addressing it. The American public is tired of paying more taxes and spending money and seeing an open border every night.

That is one of the reasons why we have to pass the bill. The other reason is we have to make a little bit of a dent in the out-of-control spending.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 5525.

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