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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member on the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, today joined “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business Network to discuss President Biden’s unlawful suspension of border wall funding and construction, as well as the need to pass bipartisan infrastructure legislation moving forward.

HIGHLIGHTS:

ON PRESIDENT BIDEN HALTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BORDER WALL FUNDING: “I don’t think the president has the legal authority to stop what Congress has said we’re going to spend our money on...so we’re asking the GAO to have a legal opinion on that.”

ON ADMINISRATION’S HANDLING OF BORDER CRISIS: “I think it is indefensible. I think it’s an outrage with the children. We see more shelters. We see 200, 300 percent over capacity. We see the president making mixed statements of ‘come, but don’t come this week.’ We know the traffickers that are bringing those children in very rough conditions up to our border because they know they will be accepted. We know there is trafficking going on, both labor and sex trafficking of those children. It’s just an all-around tragedy. It is a crisis. We are way over capacity…I see the administration with mixed messages. I’m looking forward to going down there tomorrow to see for myself.”

ON THE CRISIS’ IMPACT ON DRUG TRAFFICKING: “While our Border Patrol is trying to control this as best they can, what’s happening to all the drug smuggling that’s coming in? They’re diverted away from that drug trafficking because they have so much surge of children. Over 100,000 people across the border in just the month of February. These numbers are staggering.”

ON NEED FOR BIPARTISAN APPROACH TO INFRASTRUCTURE LEGISLATION: “I’m the ranking member on EPW, which will do the surface transportation part of this. We’ve been working in a bipartisan way so far. This is an area where we have great agreement and always have across party lines. The president pledged unity, he said he wants to work together. We need to have bipartisan solutions here, particularly on things we agree on – roads and bridges and all of our broadband infrastructure. If they cram this into another big package and load it up with a bunch of tax hikes, no Republican is going to vote for that. To me, it’s a real signal that the pledge of unity is ringing false here. That’s not the really the motivation. The motivation is to move forward with the very liberal policies under which the president was elected.”

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