On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) acknowledged that he has voted for tens of billions of {dollars} in border safety funding, and it hasn’t helped and “This surge is not like something I’ve seen right here in Arizona, and I’ve been a member of Congress for ten years.”
Gallego mentioned, “There’s a downside on the border. We have to come collectively for an answer that brings extra border safety. The voters are demanding it. This surge is not like something I’ve seen right here in Arizona, and I’ve been a member of Congress for ten years. I’ve voted for $92 billion of border safety previously, and nonetheless, it isn’t serving to. And the truth that that is getting used as a political device by U.S. — Republican senators and different politicians — I’m working in opposition to Kari Lake, who claims to be the most important Trump supporter on this planet. Does she agree with Trump that we should always not do that, we shouldn’t repair the border so it helps him and her politically? I believe that’s a query that must be requested about all Republicans, however that is harmful territory we’re in. We should be treating this as a critical state of affairs, not as a political alternative. And it’s shameful that Republicans are doing that simply in order that they will get Donald Trump, of all individuals, again into workplace.”
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