When we see how much is coming over the border, I mentioned it and it's already been mentioned here by the Chair, but we've lost over 100,000 people to drug overdoses and 70,000 of those, as you mentioned yourself, are attributed to…

Respectfully, Mr. Secretary, it's not enough. We have a humanitarian crisis and national security crisis, the face of which becomes very real.

The department has failed to provide responses to a number of requests from this committee.

When we talk to the Border Patrol agents and say do you need this and they said, oh, my God, do we need these because they have such a task in front of them.

I have seen little pairs of shoes at the border and know that those children have a story.

When we look at what's coming across the border, you said in your testimony right now that that is the single greatest challenge facing our nation.

We are allowing this crisis to make these cartels rich to the tune of billions of dollars.

Sadly, this Administration's budget proposal doubles down on failed policies that encourage these kinds of tragedies to happen every day.

I have traveled to the border three times in just the first 2 months of my time here in the Senate and I can tell you that reducing resources for border security is not the way to go.

We are allowing this crisis to make these cartels rich to the tune of billions of dollars.

This is affecting communities all across our country. It is affecting children. It is the leading cause of death between the ages of 18 and 45 in this nation.

I don't know what the definition of crisis in your mind is, and I don't know if everybody's just been told under no circumstances are you to call it a crisis, but I assure you Carla doesn't care who's Democrat or Republican in this room…

I have traveled to the border three times in just the first 2 months of my time here in the Senate and I can tell you that reducing resources for border security is not the way to go.

When we look at the budget that President Biden put forward, it's clear that this Administration is not afraid of calling out a crisis when they believe they see one.

I want to reiterate my concern. President Biden said himself that budgets are statements of value.

The department has failed to provide responses to a number of requests from this committee.

When we look at what's coming across the border, you said in your testimony right now that that is the single greatest challenge facing our nation.

I'm disappointed to not hear you call it a crisis truly because I think that's what we have before us.