It's important for us to have that information so that we can move forward.

For the third year in a row, the Biden Administration has submitted a budget that does not make a serious effort to solving the vast problems of which the Department of Homeland Security has direct purview.

Horrific tragedies, acts of pure evil, like the ones we saw this week in Nashville are heartbreaking, reminders that we have a lot of work to do.

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.

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

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…

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

The numbers are alarming.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

Horrific tragedies, acts of pure evil, like the ones we saw this week in Nashville are heartbreaking, reminders that we have a lot of work to do.

For the third year in a row, the Biden Administration has submitted a budget that does not make a serious effort to solving the vast problems of which the Department of Homeland Security has direct purview.

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

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.

It's important for us to have that information so that we can move forward.