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house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of republican lawmakers going to the border today. it comes as republicans are blaming president biden for the surge. they say he has sent a clear message that the border is open for business. it is entirely, you cannot but notice the administration changes and there is surge. there can be no question when sending a message to people. it has to be our border is closed. you can t say in spanish one thing and english another. one for the consumption of those in central america and the other for domestic consumption. it has to be the same message. they aren t doing that. when a similar surge happened a few years ago president obama called it a humanitarian crisis. as i suggested, this is going to get nothing but worse as the spring comes. bill: former acting ice director ron vitiello joins us. we begin with casey stiegel in mcallen, texas. thanks. it was another busy night for u.s. border patrol agents all alon ....
are being told, we will go there live when it happens. another fox news alert now. house minority leader kevin mccarthy and a dozen other house republicans are going to visit migrant facility in texas amid the escalating crisis at our southern border. meanwhile, the bad and white houses deploying emergency officials from fema to help with the surge of unaccompanied minors despite the president denying there is a crisis. fema goes where there are disasters. u.s. border patrol reportedly is holding more than 4200 migrant children in short-term facilities. nearly 3,000 of them held longer than the 72 hours legally allowed. house speaker nancy pelosi is blaming former president trump s policies for the situation and echoing biden and calling it a challenge, not a crisis. what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border and they are working to correct that in the children s interest. so this, again, is a transition from what was wrong before to what i ....
As local teachers get bonuses, Congress debates whether schools need more relief money As teachers get bonuses, Congress debates whether schools need more relief money By Matt Houston | March 3, 2021 at 6:21 PM CST - Updated March 4 at 11:35 AM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Sen. Bill Cassidy is among the Republicans who say President Joe Bidenâs coronavirus relief plan is too expensive. Like the others, heâs pointed to proposed aid for schools to illustrate his point. âLast year, Congress appropriated $68 billion for kindergarten through 12th grade. Of that, only $5 billion has already been spent,â Louisianaâs senior senator said. âWeâre spending money that doesnât need to be spent.â ....
Senate. there were 13 democrats in the senate who voted against it because they thought it would hurt them politically. so do democrats need to do more here? i think everyone nodes to do more. i think they need the intestinal fortitude to think those krarj votes. president obama had majority in for two years, repealed don t ask don t tell, passed the health care bill, repealed don t ask don t tell. quite simply, you can t get it all done in two years. after we lost the majority it was going to be extraordinarily difficult to accomplish anything else. how do you feel about what the president is proposing in arming teachers? he says maybe give 20% of well trained teachers bonuses if they re willing to carry concealed firearms. is that something that could be helpful? it s ludicrous. he doesn t understand the core problem here. let s also remember some ....
Teachers. and he even suggested the idea of giving those teachers bonuses. there s a tremendous feeling that we want to get something done. and we re leading that feeling, i hope. but there s a great feeling, including at the nra. reporter: president trump is pledging action on gun violence in the wake of the shooting at a florida high school last week that left 17 dead. for many years, where people sitting in my position did not take action, they didn t take proper action, they took no action at all, we re going to take action. reporter: but what that action will be is still unclear. trump unleashed a series of tweets on guns this morning, saying, i will be strongly pushing comprehensive background checks with an emphasis on mental health, raise age to 21, and end sale of bump stocks. congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue, i hope. the president says he is working the phones to rally support for his ideas. i ve called many senators last night, many congr ....