[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       REPUBLICANS' FAILED FOCUS

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the continued 
Republican leadership crisis.
  Here we go again--2 days away from a government shutdown due to a 
lack of funding. Republican leadership is so poor that it can only 
achieve stopgap funding measures. There is no long-term solution 
because MAGA Republicans have no long-term goals.
  They have no long-term goals because there is no long-term vision to 
better the country. They do not see how a lack of humanitarian care for 
innocent Palestinian families causes more instability and extremism in 
the Middle East.
  They do not understand how a lack of funding for Ukraine creates more 
political and economic instability across the globe. They deny that 
their rejection of an incredibly popular border security bill allows 
more fentanyl and illegal drugs to threaten American communities. They 
do not see because they do not care.

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