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I think that they should be protected.

We need Congress to fully fund tribal law enforcement programs.

I respectfully ask you to please raise that base budget from 15% currently funded to at least 50% of the $3.2 billion needed.

I ask you if what I described about my reservation--the amount of police calls; the amount of crime--is this a safe community for any American.

We are trying to build some efficiencies, but that efficiency is going to come when we leverage the resources of everybody.

Sometimes it is easier to have somebody be that assistance in some community somewhere else in America where they have no idea they are speaking to people who have no way out of a village, there is no road, the weather is down, and no…

We can't have DOJ over here not talking and intersecting with what Interior and HHS is.

If you are in that position, we would like to see the direction and some proposal before we go on the August break.

I am trying to make sure that as you are taking these initial steps, again, there is a sharing of information back and forth.

I think Attorney General Garland seemed to agree with me, and I think that is why he directed the Office of Tribal Justice and the DOJ grant-making offices to figure out, let's figure out what all the options are here, including…

This pilot project supplements the work that the State of Alaska is doing with regard to public safety.

We need the commitment of our Federal partners, and in this area, I think we are making some progress.

This Committee has been a great forum to both shed light on the need to improve public safety and justice in Native communities.

I am honored to have worked with Native leaders in Alaska and across the Nation over multiple Congresses on these issues of public safety.

We saw that through passage of VAWA 2022, which included the tribal title that we authored.

We are trying to build some efficiencies, but that efficiency is going to come when we leverage the resources of everybody.

I cannot underscore enough how important this is for Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Interior...

Sometimes it is easier to have somebody be that assistance in some community somewhere else in America where they have no idea they are speaking to people who have no way out of a village, there is no road, the weather is down, and no…