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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today joined Mornings with Maria on Fox Business Network to discuss the latest on various infrastructure proposals, Democrats’ plan to pump trillions more into the economy, and the ongoing southern border crisis.

HIGHLIGHTS:

ON DEMOCRATS’ OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING: “$6 trillion is an enormous amount of money on top of the $1.9 trillion that was already spent during the rescue plan, it's still yet to go out the door. Another $1.2 trillion on physical infrastructure…it seems that the spending is just way out of control and more specifically, what would you be spending $6 trillion on and what effect would that have on the economy?... As you look at this human infrastructure or social infrastructure package, this is where they're talking about free community college and preschool and who knows what else, because it's not specific. It's just a number and they seem more enamored with getting the numbers up than where the real meat of what they're trying to do is explained and I think there's going to be troubled waters ahead for anything that goes near that kind of figure. I don't see how that possibly passes, even with many Democrats saying that's way too much spending.”

ON NEED FOR PHYSICAL, PAID-FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE: “I think we do agree that physical infrastructure is something that we've dedicated federal resources to but we usually pay for it, and so that's where I think this bipartisan package needs to be scrutinized in terms of how is it actually paid for. Are there real pay fors? Will they actually meet the expectations that we have that we will pay for that package – roads and bridges and other things infrastructure-related broadband and other things?”

ON DEMOCRATS LINKING BIPARTISAN PACKAGE TO PARTISAN RECONCILIATION BILL: “Well, I think they're inextricably tied together, Maria, and I think that's troublesome because if the deal is that in order to get a physical infrastructure package, you've got to vote for $3, $4, $5, or $6 trillion social or human infrastructure package, I think that is a clear path to an inability to pass anything. I think that we ought to take the bipartisan wins that we can get and move on from there, and let the Democrats try to figure out how they're going to get 50 votes on all kinds of human or social infrastructure. It is amazing to me the way some folks here in Washington can come up with a new term that describes something that sounds much different than spending on social programs, because that's where we are.”

ON THE ONGOING BORDER CRISIS: “We're six months into an administration that announced before the President was inaugurated, that we're going to open our borders. In anticipation of that nothing was done, no preparation was made. And so you see the numbers going up and up and up, and you see more unaccompanied children, you see families, you see more people coming not from Central America, not from the Northern Triangle areas but other areas, South America, Europe, and other places. The news is out: our borders are porous. They're not doing anything. They've taken away all the wall money even leaving gates on the ground and not completing that, so there's no real commitment here to narrow the numbers, and if the President gets rid of this Title 42 it's going to be worse.”

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