Congressional Democrats to Blame for Conditions at the Border
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 7, 2019
In case you've been living in a bubble, the president and House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) have been in a spat on Twitter recently about crime, trash, and rats in Charm City, as my hometown of Baltimore is colloquially, if often ironically, known. That spat reveals the almost completely unreported blame that Congress, and congressional Democrats, bear in the conditions of border detention, for which they are attempting to blame the president.
It started with the following exchange between Cummings and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan at a committee hearing on July 18:
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