Fact Check: Did Republicans Call for Cutting 2,000 Border Patrol Agents?
BY ALEKS PHILLIPS ON 3/21/23 AT 10:53 AM EDT
Republican lawmakers who are part of the party's conservative House Freedom Caucus outlined a budget proposal on March 10 that seeks to cut current government spending and cap future expenditure.
The Biden administration then went on the offensive on Monday, laying into the plan as being "a disaster for families in at least five key ways," including "endangering public safety" and "weakening national security."
The preemptive attack comes ahead of discussions between the White House and the Republican House majority about the 2024 budget in which President Joe Biden will likely look to protect the funding he secured for key planks of his agenda in the last legislative session.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-republicans-call-cutting-border-patrol-agents-1789250?piano_t=1
