Eugene, OR – Today, Oregon Fourth Congressional District Candidate Monique DeSpain urged House Republicans in the House of Representatives to attach H.R. 2 Secure The Border Act to the Senate-passed Foreign Aid Bill for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine and send the combined bills back to the Senate Democrat leader, Schumer.
“This process is a clear reflection of how broken and dysfunctional Washington has become and highlights the need to send new leaders to Congress with a fresh approach to these issues. In Congress, I will push for single subject bills that practice radical transparency and an end to blank checks. At this moment in time, if I were in Congress, I believe we must prioritize attaching H.R. 2, the Secure The Border Act that passed in May of 2023, to any foreign aid package to ensure we are prioritizing securing our southern border and adding resources to law enforcement officials along the border above anything else,” said Monique DeSpain. “For me, our national security comes first, and that means our border must be secured, period.”
“I recognize that many members of Congress are concerned about the threats to the national security interests of the United States posed by Iran, Russia, and China, who are allied to actively threaten our interests. They believe such aid has become an unavoidable reality now that deterrence has collapsed and U.S. adversaries feel they have free reign to prosecute wars and undermine our nation’s security,” said DeSpain. “I stand for peace through strength and we don’t have that now. Until we get new leadership in the White House, our security is on life support, and our military must at least replenish.”
“However, I am concerned that the current administration lacks the will to secure the border and just wants more money to do more of what they’ve been doing - undermining our national security, enabling human smuggling, empowering cartels and violent gangs, and allowing fentanyl to flow freely into communities, driving the homelessness-addiction crisis and unleashing a crime wave,” DeSpain added. “It’s become just another form of lawlessness that the Biden administration has foisted upon our country. It must end, and the frontiers of our nation must be secured.”
“Bottomline, if President Biden and Democrat leaders say they want to find a compromise, adding H.R. 2 is it.”
Monique DeSpain is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, mother of twin boys, and public policy advocate who resides in Eugene, Oregon. She is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District in a bid to unseat incumbent Congresswoman Val Hoyle in 2024 and bring about a safer, more prosperous Oregon. Her campaign website is www.MoniqueForCongress.com
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