today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs.
nothing to do with it? it s proof that i had i did no wrongdoing whatsoever. i have been exonerateford that, of course. i don t want to dwell on it. we learned a lot. we have a new team. we will run a clean, ethical campaign. we cannot guarantee success but we will be absolutely deserving of it. let s move on to your senate race. immigration has been, of course, the focus of many of the statewi statewide campaigns in virginia as we pointed out. the country is wrestling with a very serious humanitarian crisis right now at the border. do you fully support president trump s immigration policy as it stands today? or do you have concerns about how he approaches this issue? when you say president trump s policy, we don t have enough time on this segment to talk about the intricacies of policy. but i was over dhs budget as a member of the appropriations,
appropriate. the president did it himself, when he wanted money for the wall. listen to this exchange with chuck todd exclusively with the president on meet the press. i inherited separation from president obama. president obama built they call them jail cells. they were built let s talk about what s happening now. i m just telling you. not recreation, schooling kids anymore. you got rid of all that stuff. we re doing a fantastic job under the circumstances. democrats aren t approving giving us money. where is the money? you know what? the democrats are holding up the humanitarian aid. jeremy, he wants a change in the asylum laws. in two weeks, we can get this done. it hasn t been done in years and years. yeah. we all know the history there. but to say that you re holding up these kids and not even providing some emergency, this is petty cash in the hhs or the dhs budget. right. for a toothbrush and something other than a mylar
john roberts now from the north lawn. so this coming together quickly. it is, yeah. it s at one of those rare days when we are a briefing here. they are going to be living it off. certainly, sarah sanders will take some s questions on the related or unrelated issues as well. you mentioned the democratic opposition on capitol hill to what s going on today, coming out of the white house. before this was even released, harris, democrats were declaring this budget to be dead on arrival. the main reason come as you mention come at $8.6 billion of the president is asking for to complete construction of a portable. here s the way it breaks down. $5 billion will be in the dhs budget, $3.6 billion from the defense and military construction budgets, which will complete in total 722 miles of border barrier. customs and border protection is projecting that another 180,000 people will be apprehended at the border in the next few months. projections are as high as 58,000 for the month of march,
economic growth. many people look at the tax cut and they say this is just a way to juice the economy and we re going to go back to 2% growth in the years ahead. we just disagree. we think that there is a fundamental change in capital formulation. we look at the fact that nonresidential fixed investment is up 7%. and we think that businesses are making big-time investments to be able to grow their businesses and offer different and new jobs to the american people that will allow us to grow. bret: you heard what speaker pelosi said in reaction to the budget. going back at the wall funding, is it like hitting your head against a wall because you know you are not going to get it with this house democratic leadership? absolutely not. the theme of this budget is promises kept, taxpayers first. this president promised to secure the budget he promised to build a wall and doing everything he can get done including declaring a national emergency. we believe that the situation worsens at the