Tiffany says Border Security is Top Priority
Northern Wisconsin’s Republican congressman says the new Congress should not get bogged down before it can pass a new border security plan.
Congressman Tom Tiffany was on Fox Business Monday to talk about the debt ceiling and the new plan to secure the border.
“I think we need to get the border security bill done first,” Tiffany explained. “It is going to be difficult to get it passed, [and] it needs to be done immediately.”
The debt ceiling cap is set to expire on January 1, and Republicans are not sure how to deal with it. Some Republicans in Congress simply want to raise the ceiling, while more conservative members want something in exchange for taking on more debt.
Tiffany, said he has a different thought heading into the new year.
“If you listen to President Trump over the last couple weeks, he has said that of all the things that ail America, and we know what they are -- weak foreign policy, illegal immigration, our country being invaded, the high cost of living -- the most important thing is you're not a country if you don't have a border,” Tiffany added.
Tiffany has been tough on the border for years.
He said earlier this summer that every community is now a border community. He’s demanded answers about illegal immigrants in Wisconsin following the double murder of two little girls near Colby back in July, and the sexual assault of a woman and her daughter by another illegal in Prairie du Chein back in September.
“I agree with President Trump,” Tiffany said on Fox Business. “[The border security bill] is number one. That’s what we should deal with right out of the box.
Southern Wisconsin Congressman Bryan Steil said something similar on Twitter on Monday.
Stel said “there is a drug and human trafficking crisis that we cannot continue to ignore, and strong border security legislation is the only way to solve it.”
Tiffany and Steil will be part of the new Congress that will be sworn-in on Friday.
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