{"id":2010530,"date":"2023-08-24T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-floats-plan-to-secure-border-by-defunding-key-biden-initiative\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:39:43","slug":"tim-scott-floats-plan-to-secure-border-by-defunding-key-biden-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-floats-plan-to-secure-border-by-defunding-key-biden-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott proposes defunding key Biden initiative to secure border."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-scott-floats-plan-to-secure-border-by-defunding-key-biden-initiative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2010530&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Tim Scott Calls for Securing the Southern Border<\/h2>\n<p>During\u200c the first Republican\u200c Party presidential primary debate on Wednesday\u2064 night, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) made \u2062a bold proposal\u2064 to\u2062 address the issue of\u200b border security in the United States. He suggested that by reallocating\u200b resources, the country could effectively secure the southern\u2063 border.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s fire the 87,000 IRS agents and hire, or double, the number of Border Patrol agents,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">presidential candidate<\/a> said.\u200d \u201cI just left Yuma, Arizona, about two weeks ago. The most pressing need of\u200c the American people, from a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-combat-veteran-kent-keirsey-the-fight-for-freedom-is-at-home-not-abroad\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Combat Veteran Kent Keirsey: \u2018The Fight for Freedom\u2019 Is at Home, Not Abroad\">national security standpoint<\/a>,\u2064 is our southern border. It has led to the death of 70,000 Americans because \u2064of fentanyl.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Scott emphasized the urgency of the situation, highlighting the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-floats-plan-to-secure-border-by-defunding-key-biden-initiative\/\" title=\"Tim Scott proposes defunding key Biden initiative to secure border.\">alarming \u2062statistics related<\/a>\u2063 to\u2063 illegal crossings\u200d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-spox-largest-threat-to-u-s-national-security-are-u-s-cops\/\" title=\"State Dept Spox: \u2018Largest Threat to U.S. National Security are U.S. Cops\u2019\">national security threats<\/a> at the border.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPlus, six \u2062million \u200dillegal crossings since President Biden has taken office, and 200 people on our national security watchlists have been caught at our \u200cborder,\u201d \u2064he added.\u200c \u201cHow many \u200bhave not been caught at our southern border? If \u200dwe just\u2064 spent $10 billion we could finish the wall. For $5 \u200bbillion more, we could have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ripped-for-threatening-to-nuke-law-abiding-american-citizens-hes-literally-recording-nra-ads\/\" title=\"Biden Ripped For \u2018Threatening To Nuke Law-Abiding American Citizens\u2019: He\u2019s \u2018Literally Recording NRA Ads\u2019\">military-grade technology<\/a> \u2064to surveil our southern \u200bborder to stop\u200d the flow of fentanyl, and\u2063 save 70,000 Americans a\u200d year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For Sen. Scott, securing the southern border is a top priority,\u2062 and he firmly believes in completing \u2062the border wall.<\/p>\n<h3>Post-Debate Reflections<\/h3>\n<p>After the\u2063 debate, Sen. Scott \u200bsat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity to discuss his performance and express his\u200d disappointment with the lack of focus on crucial issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u200c felt like I \u200cwanted to \u2064have a conversation, an adult conversation, about why America can do for anyone what\u200d she\u2019s\u200d done \u200bfor me,\u201d Scott \u200bsaid. \u201cWe \u2062didn\u2019t spend enough time talking about the challenges we have at our southern border. We didn\u2019t \u200btalk \u200clong enough about the challenges that we \u2063have\u2062 with China. It\u2019s\u2063 not the strength of China, it\u2019s the weakness of \u2063Biden, that\u2019s \u200cthe problem that we face as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Scott emphasized the \u2063need to \u200daddress important and consequential \u200cissues facing the American \u200cpeople, \u2064rather than engaging in unproductive arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>border agents to secure our southern border,&#8221; Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) proposed during the GOP primary debate. He suggested replacing the IRS employees funded by Biden&#8217;s administration with border agents, emphasizing the need to prioritize border security. Scott&#8217;s solution involved firing the IRS agents and potentially doubling the number of border agents for a more secure border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2010531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}