{"id":159816,"date":"2023-05-12T14:06:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=159816"},"modified":"2023-05-12T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:06:39","slug":"house-republicans-call-on-president-biden-to-secure-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=159816","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Call on President Biden to Secure the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C&#8230;Speaker Kevin McCarthy, along with additional Members of the House Republican Conference, held a press conference after the passage of H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.\u00a0 At the press conference, Speaker McCarthy called on Senate Democrats and President Biden to stand with the families of victims of fentanyl poisoning, the agents that guard our southern border, and the American people by supporting the Secure the Border Act.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"House Republicans Just Passed H.R. 2 - The Secure the Border Act\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cw3iViLnJL4?start=1&amp;feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remarks as prepared below, or you may watch online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cw3iViLnJL4&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cw3iViLnJL4&amp;t=1s\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoments ago, House Republicans passed the strongest border security bill this country has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill secures the border from President Biden\u2019s record crossings, record carelessness, and record chaos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecuring the border is one of my top priorities. And it is a priority of every member of our conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy passing H.R. 2, House Republicans have shown we\u2019re focused on addressing our nation\u2019s biggest challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy contrast, the White House had two years to plan for the end of Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all knew the deadline. But the White House produced no plan, missed the deadline, and bumbled into another crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven President Biden \u2013 who has only been to the border one time in 50 years \u2013 says, \u2018there is going to be chaos for a little while.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the White House keeps missing deadlines, here\u2019s how did it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe identified the problem rather than ignoring it. We listened to the American people. And then, we took action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of our committees held hearings at the border \u2013 Homeland Security and Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talked to border patrol agents. Heard the frustration in their voices and saw the exhaustion in their faces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut House Democrats chose to skip every hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they had attended, I believe they would have voted with us. You cannot listen to what we heard and vote against stronger border security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo-nothing Democrats must not continue to repeat this pattern on the debt limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow will be the 100th Day since I first sat down with President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know the deadline for default: June 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in this situation because Inflation Democrats added $6 trillion to our national debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House passed a plan to avoid default, cap spending, grow the economy, and responsibly raise the debt limit 15 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut President Biden and Senator Schumer are stuck on \u2018no\u2019. They have no plan, no proposed cuts, and no clue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently, President Biden doesn\u2019t want a deal, he wants a default.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. President, my message is simple: do not miss another deadline, like you did with Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to act responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C&#8230;Speaker Kevin McCarthy, along with additional Members of the House Republican Conference, held a press conference after the passage of H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.\u00a0 At the press conference, Speaker McCarthy called on Senate Democrats and President Biden to stand with the families of victims of fentanyl poisoning, the agents that guard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-5122023-20457-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159818,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159816\/revisions\/159818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}