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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Treasury Department released the Monthly Treasury Statement for May 2019. The data shows that government revenues have increased for FY 2019 (in large part due to tax collections), but that government spending has increased almost 10% during the same period. Interest on the national debt has cost the United States over $354 billion during FY 2019, and is estimated to run over $593 billion by the end of the fiscal year. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats continued their harassment of President Donald Trump and his administration, passing H.Res. 430 to empower committee chairmen to bypass the entire House of Representatives in attempts to enforce subpoenas with Trump officials. Congressman Biggs voted against the resolution and issued the following statement:
John Dean, Congress' star Watergate witness, returned to Capitol Hill on Monday to help Democrats link President Donald Trump to one of the biggest presidential scandals in modern history.
But Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee ensured that what unfolded was an at-times heated relitigation of Dean's role in Watergate more than 40 years ago, questioning his honor, pointing to his own admitted obstruction of justice at that time and accusing him of profiting off his Watergate experience as a television commentator who frequently criticizes Trump.
If you thought that the theater of the absurd that is the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee couldn't be more farcical, you were wrong. At least absurdist theater has a serious component and attempts to provoke introspection.
While President Trump is trying to find a solution to the border crisis and rising tide of illegal immigration, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is tweeting out his "congratulations."
The sarcasm wasn't lost on Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ).
GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, Congressman Biggs and his colleagues sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security to address recent reports that illegal aliens are being transported around the country without travel identification required for air travel. Representatives Babin, Gaetz, Cloud, Roy, Gosar, Duncan, and Hice joined the letter to Acting Secretary McAleenan.
Read the text of the letter below:
June 7, 2019
A group of House conservatives is seeking details on Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policies for screening undocumented immigrants at airports.
In a Friday letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees TSA, the Republican lawmakers raised concerns about which forms of ID are being accepted before boarding.
GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, the Department of Labor released the May 2019 Employment Situation report. Congressman Biggs released the following statement:
The surge of illegal immigrants coming across the southern border in May increased by about one-third from a month before.
The Central American migration boom that has been overwhelming Border Patrol agents for almost a year, but they took 144,278 illegal border crosserswere apprehended according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.