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Senator Cornyn is a principled conservative. He is a very effective senator for the state of Texas.

Today I recognize Elijah Suwyn, an intern in my Washington, DC, office, for all the hard work he has done for me, my staff, and the State of South Dakota over the past several weeks. Elijah is a recent graduate of Biola University in La…

Without congressional action, Americans were facing a massive $4 trillion tax hike next year.

After 40 days of uncertainty, I am profoundly glad to be able to announce nutrition programs, our veterans, and other critical priorities will have their full-year funding.

Great. Listen, listen, I have barely spent any time here, OK. The bottom line is, in those hearings, I asked witnesses: How much have we spent combating climate change? Five to six trillion dollars. Our Energy Secretary puts the number at…

In following this two-track approach, the Republican Congress will fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that…

If you want to have a debate on appropriations, we can have that. We have made ourselves available. The White House is available. There are meetings going on right now which I hope ultimately lead to a result where we get these Agencies…

I would support a resolution, which will be offered, to fund not just TSA but Coast Guard; Cybersecurity, CISA; FEMA; other Agencies and Departments of our government that are essential not only to national security and homeland security…

Well, I would say again to the Democrat leader that the Democrats have had multiple opportunities--and will have another one today--to provide funding for all of the Agencies that he just mentioned, under a continuing resolution, to allow…

So I assume the Democrat leader is aware of the fact that we have tried repeatedly to fund everything temporarily to allow the negotiations over the ICE budget to continue.

In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security.

How we're going to go after cartels and drug trafficking in the entire Western Hemisphere.

These actions reflect the reality of operating without appropriations.

Must take emergency measures to preserve limited funds and personnel.

All non-emergency recovery work is paused.

I’m still in charge of the Department of Homeland Security.

I hope that you do recognize that, in the past, your state has been an absolute disaster on elections.

Has played an instrumental role in advancing our mission to secure the homeland and keep Americans safe.