The Montana senator is blaming Republicans for the CBP's lack of funds for installing fentanyl screening technology at the southern border.
The drug scanning equipment has sat unused because Customs and Border Protection doesn’t have the $300 million needed to install them, CBP Commissioner Troy MillerNBC News. In a letter sent Friday to the House and Senate appropriations committees, Tester said that the reason the agency doesn’t have the money is due to the Republicans who blocked the bipartisan border deal last month containing the funds for the scanning installation.
In October, Republicans reportedly asked the Government Accountability Office to conduct a thorough investigation into the CBP’s use of the $1.9 billion the agency received to improve border screening in 2018 and why, with such a large sum of money, only 2% of vehicles were scanned.
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