[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 121 (Tuesday, July 15, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3257]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          MORE FUNDING FOR FBI

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, one of the things we did in the big, ugly 
bill that passed last week or the week before is that we put more money 
into ICE than we put into the FBI.
  The United States' largest investigative function will be in ICE, not 
in the FBI. We put more money into chasing people who fix our roofs, 
take care of our yards, take care of our children, take care of our 
seniors, work the back section of the restaurants, and make America 
work. We should be putting that money into finding criminals that the 
FBI should be finding.
  We have a crime problem. That should be first. The people committing 
felonies, rapes, murders, and child sexual abuse is what they said they 
were going to go after in the immigration fights. Yet, now they are 
going after statistics and records for deporting more people than any 
other country in the world.
  It is a shame. Crime should be focused on in the FBI and not, as 
President Trump said today, that the FBI should be working on voter 
fraud, public corruption, and election fraud in the 2020 elections, and 
then he said thugs and criminals.
  The first order is to protect us from criminals. Save America. Put 
our moneys where they serve the best purpose, and that is the FBI, not 
ICE.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.

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