If we do not take a hold of what is happening right now with social media and our youth, it is going to be so far gone we cannot get it back.

It is clear that there were significant mismanagement and risk controls at both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature that just went awry.

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.

President Biden's budget request for Customs and Border Protection is a decrease of $1.3 billion and his plan has as many gaps in it as the wall that this Administration refuses to finish.

I cannot emphasize enough that we must make real and lasting impacts so that we can stop the cartels, stop the manufacturers of precursors and stop the senseless deaths of Americans due to fentanyl.

The numbers are alarming.

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

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 can tell you that reducing resources for border security is not the way to go.

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.

It is without a doubt a crisis and I will say once again that I'm disappointed that I can't hear you say those words as well.

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 value the work that this department can and should and will be doing and I hope that we see that same commitment from the Administration, as well.

Despite the legal requirement to detain migrants facing removal, yet again President Biden's budget requests fewer resources for detention beds.

When we look at what drug cartels are doing not only south of our border but here in our country, we are allowing this crisis to make these cartels rich to the tune of billions of dollars and the cost of that is in real human faces and…

the President announced that Title 42 will end on May 11th and the department's own projections, as we've discussed here today, are that encounters will double from today's level to as many as 12,000 encounters daily.

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

Why did the department not request appropriate funds to provide CBP with modern, safer technology and advanced helicopters that they tell us they need at the rate of the fiscal year 2024 request?

We owe it to the citizens of this nation. We owe it to the people who are being trafficked by these drug cartels to take back control.

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

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

Despite the legal requirement to detain migrants facing removal, yet again President Biden's budget requests fewer resources for detention beds and alternatives to detention.

We must do better. Our border is not secure and we owe it to the citizens of this nation.

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

Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.