One bipartisan policy change I am here to advocate for is my bill, H.R. 5590, the Border Enforcement, Security, and Trade, or BEST, Facilitation Act of 2023.

Under this administration, every State is now a border State.

We must be doing more to support our agents and officers.

About every 5 minutes, an American dies from a drug overdose or poisoning.

This administration, and Secretary Mayorkas, in particular, is failing us.

Illegal migration is not unique to our Northern and Southern Borders.

Under this administration, every State is now border State.

They are failing our local communities by shutting down the Lukeville Port of Entry.

I come before the Committee today to testify in support of my bipartisan bill H.R. 6497, the Healthy Watersheds, Healthy Communities Act of 2023.

The question is, do we have the political courage to do what has to be done?

I urged the Biden administration to deploy the Arizona National Guard.

Without your support and the joint effort of the committee, China inches closer to our shores by the day.

We need the government to step up and do its job and secure our border.

I can't express my level of disappointment in your opening statement.

The current $1 million annually that our local DHS office receives is nowhere near adequate to counter the State-level threats that our local government faces daily.

This is a Federal problem and deserves a Federal solution.

We need the federal government to act.

Health care is three quarters of the borrowing over the next three decades.