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.

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

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…

The cartels control an awful lot of the southern border south of the United States.

I agree, as well, and when you visit, it becomes very clear.

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 candid answer is he cannot.

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

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…

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 am hopeful that we can get on the same page about this.

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

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

Will you commit to having the department provide these reports on time as required by law?

Well, let's talk about fentanyl then. 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…

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.

a clear indication the President is not serious about enforcement.

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

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.

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

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

We've lost over 100,000 people to drug overdoses and 70,000 of those... are attributed to fentanyl.

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

When Farmers wake up early in the morning to take on their day, from feeding their cows, to mending fences, to planting, to harvesting, they have enough on their plate.

this new rule is going to negatively impact over 64,000 small businesses in the great State of Alabama.