Sec. Mullin on the World Cup’s Safety: With Dems Defunding ICE and DHS, ‘It Made It Tough’

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MULLIN: "Yeah. Um there‘s not specific threats. There‘s a threat because of the amount of people coming in. We have 5 to 7 million visitors. That‘s going to be here over the next 30. B 35 days now. So there is always a threat of that. Are we safe? Yes. We‘re going to have a safe and and one of the best world cups in in the history of this event. The truth is, though, with the Democrats defunding ice and cbp for 115 days and DHS for 76 days, it made it tough. Our mou that we had with our local law enforcement, the reimbursement was behind. So they had a tremendous amount of, of, of expenses coming out because we can‘t do this without our local partnerships. The amount of security that brings in with this is unending from, from the teams coming in to, to secure their base camp to the host cities. We have keep in mind 78 super bowls in 38 days throughout the United States and 11 different host cities today were in Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia and monterrey, Mexico. Each one of those had to be treated like a Super Bowl. Each one of those will have a bigger audience than the Super Bowl, and DHS has a lead in security. We feel very confident on our posture in each one of these places, but it is it put us at a disadvantage because of the Democrats playing."