I encourage, and look forward to working with you to do everything we can in that regard.

Time is not on our side, Secretary, especially when we have a $19 billion arms backlog to Taiwan.

President Lopez Obrador continues to take arbitrary and punitive actions against U.S. businesses operating in Mexico.

Anything that increases the cost of producing energy right now... is putting our Nation at a point of weaker, weaker economic security, weaker national security.

I think it really doubles down on the weaponization of our tax code against industries that are out of disfavor by this Administration, and it weakens us as a Nation.

I think the fees tend to be passed on to the consumers.

And massively increases taxes at a time when we are trying to recover our economy.

I will continue to stand up for small business owners with an aim to put an end to this egregious and unwanted overreach.

We have an opportunity for deterrence with Ukraine, we didn't take it.

It damages the confidence of taxpayers in America.

We have an exceptional job ahead of us. We are challenged in conducting rigorous oversight to strengthen U.S. financial systems and ensure that the dollars that taxpayers have entrusted to us with are spent responsibly.

There are deep concerns there. We have got, potentially, Chinese companies working with the Mexican Military to take adverse actions on U.S. assets.

It is clear to me that it is not going to get any less complicated. It is going to be more complicated considerably by the way it is moving.

The new budget lays out another $2.5 trillion of spending increases and going to the Treasury Green Book that you just mentioned a few minutes earlier, another $4.7 trillion of tax increases as well.

It has become--beyond comprehension that they could have allowed the Chief Risk Officer position to remain vacant for 8 months during the period leading up to this collapse.

When I was serving in a previous role as United States Ambassador to Japan, the third largest economy in the world, we were able to get them to block untrusted carriers because of what had happened here.

I think it is also important that our allies do the same.

We need to make sure that the equipment market is more diverse, and more competitive, and less costly.