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ICYMI: Donalds Joins The Hill Sunday With Chris Stirewalt

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This press release from Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) was published on 2026-03-30 and titled "ICYMI: Donalds Joins The Hill Sunday With Chris Stirewalt". It focuses on immigration and touches on taxes, the environment.

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ICYMI: Donalds Joins The Hill Sunday With Chris Stirewalt

WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation to discuss the ongoing military involvement in Iran and the Democrat-led shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Watch the full interview here . "I think you have to give the President a wide latitude in not only his words, but in how he moves the pieces on the chessboard": "Well, let's talk about what the President needs right now. And what he needs is maximum flexibility. When you're trying to go through and achieve the objectives that the administration has been very clear in laying out: this is the elimination of the nuclear program, [the] elimination of their ballistic missile threat capability, and then the last one is providing the environment where the Iranian people can depose this theocratic terrorist dictatorship that runs Iran. I think you have to give the President a wide latitude in not only his words, but in how he moves the pieces on the chessboard... The President needs the flexibility to conduct not just military affairs but also foreign policy in order to get the best deal done not just for the United States but for our allies in that region." "That's what Senate Democrats sent to the House, and we said no": "That bill was trash, and everybody knows it, because what that bill does is it doesn't fund our Border Patrol agents. It doesn't fund the ICE support agents, so it degrades the mission of ICE. It degrades the mission of being able to secure our Southern border. It actually empowers the drug cartels to start trafficking more and more fentanyl into the United States because of zeroing out those critical procedures—those critical functions of ICE and border agents. Another thing that the Democrats defunded [is] the ability to investigate child sex trafficking and to find the 300,000 kids that the Biden administration lost on purpose with their reckless border security packages. That's what Senate Democrats sent to the House, and we said no." ###

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ICYMI: Donalds Joins The Hill Sunday With Chris Stirewalt WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation to discuss the ongoing military involvement in Iran and the Democrat-led shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Watch the full interview here . "I think you have to give the President a wide latitude in not only his words, but in how he moves the pieces on the chessboard": "Well, let's talk about what the President needs right now. And what he needs is maximum flexibility. When you're trying to go through and achieve the objectives that the administration has been very clear in laying out: this is the elimination of the nuclear program, [the] elimination of their ballistic missile threat capability, and then the last one is providing the environment where the Iranian people can depose this theocratic terrorist dictatorship that runs Iran. I think you have to give the President a wide latitude in not only his words, but in how he moves the pieces on the chessboard... The President needs the flexibility to conduct not just military affairs but also foreign policy in order to get the best deal done not just for the United States but for our allies in that region." "That's what Senate Democrats sent to the House, and we said no": "That bill was trash, and everybody knows it, because what that bill does is it doesn't fund our Border Patrol agents. It doesn't fund the ICE support agents, so it degrades the mission of ICE. It degrades the mission of being able to secure our Southern border. It actually empowers the drug cartels to start trafficking more and more fentanyl into the United States because of zeroing out those critical procedures—those critical functions of ICE and border agents. Another thing that the Democrats defunded [is] the ability to investigate child sex trafficking and to find the 300,000 kids that the Biden administration lost on purpose with their reckless border security packages. That's what Senate Democrats sent to the House, and we said no." ###