Mitch McConnell claimed that the GOP’s top priority is funding Ukraine, but our border crisis is as worse as ever.

GALLAGHER: Here was Mitch McConnell earlier this week expressing what he says is the top priority for the United States.

MCCONNELL: Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians. That’s the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans. That’s sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.

GALLAGHER: Well with all due respect, I don’t think that is the view of most Republicans. Not the Republicans I know. It is hard to believe that this crisis at the border isn’t the biggest priority for the United States. I mean, you have Democrats lining up begging Biden to go to the border and deal with this. Don’t look now. The media is not going to cover this. The media doesn’t want to focus on the dissent within the Democrat party. Of course this is really only coming from Texas Democrats. This comes from border state Democrats, but every state has become a border state. Listen to Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar. She is a Democrat on MSNBC yesterday.

ESCOBAR: But we see frequently members of Congress, mostly Republicans. I brought 20 percent of Congress to El Paso in my first year in Congress as a freshman.

DIAZ-BALART: Should the President be here, do you think?

ESCOBAR: I think absolutely the President should be here, and I think everyone should be here, but more importantly than the President actually being here, I want Congress to act. I would like the State Department to be even more robustly engaged on this western hemispheric issue because this is going to take a lot of work. It’s going to take legislation. And we need that urgency that you talked about.

GALLAGHER: And of course this is going to take money. This is not an inexpensive fix. People have pointed out to me you have miles and miles of border. Trump was trying to fix that. If Trump was in office, I really suspect and I don’t think this is a stretch, we wouldn’t have the crisis we are having today. Here is Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville yesterday to a reporter talking about this commitment of billions of dollars to Ukraine.

TUBERVILLE: “Because we’re borrowing all the money. It’s not like we’ve got $45 billion just to send to Ukraine. And I’m all for helping, and have been. I didn’t vote for the $40 billion. I just think we do too much at one time. Give them a little at a time, because all that amount of money is hard to oversight. You can’t keep up with it. We’re just flushing money out and we don’t know where it’s going.”