Senator Lankford on Budget Bill Deadline, Immigration Loopholes, and Societal Shifts

Budget Bill and Spending Concerns

• 🗓️ Senator Lankford states the budget bill, central to the president's agenda, is unlikely to be finished by the July 4th deadline, with completion expected by the end of July.
• 📉 He emphasizes the necessity of reducing spending, highlighting the current overspending of two trillion dollars annually.
• 💰 Lankford believes that solutions to slow spending need to be larger than tens to hundreds of billions, aiming for a more significant impact.

Immigration and Border Security

• ⚖️ Lankford reflects on a past immigration compromise, suggesting that its passage would have fixed legal loopholes exploited by cartels.
• 🛂 He notes that the current administration is enforcing existing laws, leading to different outcomes, but a bill to close loopholes is still needed.
• ➕ The failed bill would have included more personnel for adjudication, ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, and funding for a border wall, which would have been in place by January 1st.

Societal Shifts and Technology

• 🗣️ Lankford observes that Oklahomans desire a sense of order and for things to