The city of New Orleans has been in a tough financial spot. The state has come in to help, but that must also come with fiscal restraint.

That’s exactly what we did this year. If you look at the descriptions of what we struck out, it’s overwhelmingly NGO funding, which is in line with my desire to be the best stewards of taxpayer dollars.

I guess my point is, though, that the American people need to know more than we’re being told.

If you're not telling me answers, I'm going to push for those answers.

But point being, I needed to know. I need to know to serve my people and my state and my country.

We need a fully funded Department of Homeland Security.

Let's clean that up. Let's make it easier to create jobs and grow opportunities for people in this country.

Steve, I would consider changing my vote, but I've been voting yes because I've not been briefed.

I think if we want to get more money for defense, we have to do it through reconciliation, which means we need to start immediately.

I make no apologies for standing up to the president.

Now we have to trust but verify, but as they laid it out, they have a plausible plan by which to achieve those, and that's what I was interested in.

They’re leaking like a sieve. They leak what happens in a bedroom, they leak what happens in meetings, they get audio of meetings.

The larger issue is this … they’re leaking.

You cannot recognize who the Democrats are anymore. This is surely not your father or grandfather's Democrat Party. They've fully embraced socialism.

They’re leaking like a sieve.

Trust no one. If you work in that snake pit, you can’t say anything, you can’t do anything.

I told Trump that I would continue voting in favor of war powers resolutions until the White House briefed Congress on the war.

But I again matched his tone and volume.