It is going to save the taxpayers about $8 billion. And more importantly, it is going to save lives.

This Congress on the Hill, 2 years ago got it right in regard to Ukraine. It was very clear that the Russians were going to invade.

I think that's not only wrong, I think that's immoral.

This global problem then requires global solutions.

The Administration's Indo-Pacific strategy recognizes the importance of both the Pacific and Indian Oceans to U.S. interests.

That is it fundamentally, I think.

Thank you for holding this hearing. Thank you for making the notifications on time within the rules.

I would just argue that it might not be wise to reduce funding to the IRS when we need to go after both fraudsters and tax cheats.

So we must get an accurate picture of what money was obtained illegally so we can bring the criminals who took advantage of taxpayers to justice and get money back to the Treasury Department.

I am so glad we did because if you look at our economy right now, the highest GDP ever, the best-- the lowest inflation now in the entire G7 universe, the lowest unemployment in my lifetime.

The American people need accountability and transparency, and if a small business accounts receivable were as high as the SBA's, they would take all action possible to get this money back.

We should also all agree to resource it to the level that the administration has asked.

To the taxpayers, $100,000 is still a lot of money. So just to ignore it is another problem.

You would think that a report from a nonpartisan watchdog claiming hundreds of billions of dollars were disbursed to criminals through the SBA would warrant her showing up to this Committee today, but that obviously isn't the case for…

It is only a massive crisis, and we can talk about that if you want to in the course of this morning.

We need to take this issue extremely seriously.

I just came back from Taiwan 2 months ago, and I was greeted by an armada of battleships surrounding the island.

The climate crisis is going to have profound impacts on our water supply, on drought conditions that increase the risk of destructive wildfires, and limit agricultural yields.