House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) recommended that his Republican Party win some policies instead of squabbling over budget items.
Jordan appeared on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo with six days left until the deadline to fund the government. The House has only submitted four appropriations bills to set the government’s budget for the year starting Oct. 1. There are eight more that have yet to advance.
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“Well, everyone wants to get the 12 appropriation bills done. I’m all for that. That’s how we should operate, but, frankly, we’re not going to get it done in the next six days, so there’s going to have to be some stopgap measure,” Jordan said. “The speaker has said: ‘Let’s go for a 30-day [continuing resolution], but let’s win some policies when we do it, let’s do something that actually benefits the entire country.’ And everyone knows what that issue is. This is literally Politics 101. One really good issue beats 15 pretty good issues every single time, and the one really good issue right now is the problem on our border.”
An estimated 2 million immigrants have entered the border since President Joe Biden took office and have been released into the country. In the most recent report from Operation Lone Star, the multiagency program committed to combating illegal crossings at the Texas border, it was noted that over 457,500 illegal immigrant apprehensions have occurred since March 2021.
“And, again, Maria, if we say no money can be used to process or release any new migrants into the country, we’re going to stop it, we’re going to fix the problem, we send it over there, and Chuck Schumer says no to it, then he’s, in essence, saying it’s more important to shut down the government than it is to secure our border,” Jordan reasoned. “I don’t think the American people are there.”
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Jordan expressed his optimism that the four appropriation bills that have already advanced but haven’t been voted on will help cover “the bulk of the spending.” The four are the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill and bills on agriculture, state operations, and foreign operations.
Congress has until Sept. 30 to fund the government before a shutdown occurs.
