Thank you. Mr. Secretary, you mentioned that you've hired 14,000 nurses on net.

I thank my dear friend and colleague Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick for yielding to me. We are here to honor the memory of a dear friend and colleague, Congressman Donald Payne, Jr., a remarkable public servant and a true champion of…

Of course not. It's absurd.

I would strongly urge you to think about the problem you are causing for the next administration and the one after.

What message do you have to the American family that can't afford to make ends meet, and many of the policies that are coming out of the Department of the Interior are actually contributing to that as a result of higher gasoline and…

But I'm so struck that the unions are so powerful that I just want to be comfortable that you're actually adjusting your staffing.

that's suggesting to me that there is not a prior authorization.

I feel like this is a direct result of this Administration's actions that are causing these higher, unaffordable prices for American families.

And it seems like it would be irresponsible for us to keep increasing funding for these programs that aren't doing what they were intended to do.

Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of our coast. It's like wiping the State of Rhode Island off the map.

But I guess it's really difficult for me to understand how to reconcile the two things, that we are the most impacted State and sea rise is going to destroy our State.

If you come in and you use bad metrics that don't consider all of the risk, you are going to result in bad outcomes.

So, you are not answering my question, and I think we both understand the answer is, no, these are not in the Stafford Act.

I couldn't be more supportive of mitigation and resiliency efforts when they make sense.

Can you tell me where in the Stafford Act those three objectives are?

I appreciate your answer. It is not answering the question, though.

I hear administration officials coming down to Louisiana and talking about sea rise and our risk all the time.

why should taxpayers, in a Nation that's drowning in debt, trust your Agency with more taxpayer dollars?