GOP lawmaker wants government shut down over illegal immigration flood

A Republican lawmaker who visited the southern border with other GOP members in Texas called for a government shutdown over the surge of illegal migrants entering the U.S.

Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois recorded a video of herself, posted Friday on X, standing in front of the concertina wire that Texas authorities unraveled on the U.S. side of the border in Eagle Pass.

“I’m down here at the border with Speaker [Mike] Johnson and some other members. And it is a catastrophe. It is so alarming,” she said.

She wrote, “If [President] Biden won’t shut down the border invasion, Congress must shut down the corrupt government that is funding it!”