Senator Bill Cassidy (R) - Louisiana
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy files legislation that would take money seized from drug cartels and us it to pay for a southern border wall. Cassidy says instead of having Americans pay for the wall, let it be Mexican cartels.
“I like that, because not only does it secure the Southern border, but it takes money from the cartels that they would otherwise use to human traffic, drug traffic and buy guns,” said Cassidy.
Cassidy says the more they secure the border, the more illicit money they will capture. Congressional leaders have been debating for weeks on how to fund a border wall, Cassidy says this legislation could break the logjam.
“If they can do it by another means, God Bless em, but if they are at an impasse, can’t go forward, can’t build a Southern wall, because (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi won’t have it, maybe this is a way forward,” said Cassidy.
Another government shutdown is looming in a couple of weeks, if funding is not secured for a Southern border wall. He says the Department of Treasury Forfeiture Fund averages 842-million dollars annually and his proposal is to issue bonds in order to make billions of dollars for immediate improvements to border security.
“Technically, Congress would not be appropriating the money, rather it would just be money already confiscated and used by law enforcement, than we can go forward,” said Cassidy.
