Congressman Josh Brecheen and House Republicans passed the Secure the Border Act of 2023 (H.R.2) just hours before Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that is one of the last deterrents for migrants to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, expires.
Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Representative Kevin Hern (R-OK), Representative Tom Cole (R-OK), Representative Frank Lucas (R-OK), Representative Stephanie Bice (R-OK), and Representative Josh Brecheen issued the following statement after Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threated to resend St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s accreditation for having a single, enclosed religious “living flame” present in the hospital’s chapel, a tenant of its faith.