Chairman Pfluger Calls Out Democrats on DHS Funding Demands, Economic Failures
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman August Pfluger appeared on Fox Radio’s Brian Kilmeade Show to call out the Left for refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security unless the names and addresses of ICE agents are handed over to the public. Chairman Pfluger made it clear that House Republicans will uphold the rule of law and will not allow ICE Agents to be doxxed.
Pfluger also touted the RSC’s “Making the American Dream Affordable Again” framework for a second budget reconciliation bill that will directly address housing, health care, and energy costs that skyrocketed due to 4 years of the Biden-Harris agenda.
Listen to the full interview on Fox Radio here.
Read highlights from the interview with Chairman Pfluger below:
On Democrats demands for DHS Funding: “Well, Democrats are not good faith actors on this. We left a week and a half ago with the deal…a bipartisan deal. The continuing resolution that we're operating under right now is more funding than they agreed to…body cams were part of that agreement, and they choose not to pick that, but look, they're saying the quiet part out loud. They want to abolish ICE. They want to doxx these [ICE] agents. [Democrats] want to “hold ICE accountable.” Well, I want to hold illegal aliens accountable so you know, they're in a dangerous spot. Obviously, the four years under Joe Biden were just horrific, letting millions of people in, but we're not going to protect our ICE agents and prevent them from having to be doxxed and their kids and their families being threatened. The issue of masks is for their safety. This is going to be, I think, a fight where we just fundamentally disagree with law and order. We saw that under Biden is playing out now in this deal, and we've got about a week and a half, as you mentioned, a little over a week to come up with a negotiation.”
On Congress’s Election Integrity Efforts: “I support the SAVE Act and I support the SAVE AMERICA Act. We absolutely should have a citizenship requirement and voter ID when you go to the polls. You're kidding me. You can get a Venmo account right now and need an ID for that, but you don't have to do it to go vote?”
On the RSC’s Reconciliation 2.0 Framework: “Making the American Dream More Affordable Again plan that I've released through the Republican Study Committee centers on three things: it's health care, it's housing and it’s energy costs. We have good policy to lower those costs. It fits in with things like TrumpRx, where you have transparency and competition direct to the consumer. You know exactly what the cost of that drug is, and you pay that cost. You know exactly what the cost of the plan is, and you pay that cost. No more insurance companies taking it away from you. Let's do things where we get more supply on the housing market. We lower the age of the first time home buyer from forty-one years old, which is just way too old. Let's get that down to where a new family can buy a home. We've got a lot of momentum behind this. It only requires fifty-one votes in the Senate. That is the key, because it seems like Democrats are just dug in, in a place where they want to shut down everything. This offers us the chance to expand on the success of what we did in one big, beautiful bill, which people are feeling those results right now. They're seeing more money back in their pockets.”