Richard Shelby: “But we cannot have a gap to occur in our reconnaissance and everything in our intelligence gathering, can we?”

Because the administration has refused to fund the construction of a comprehensive barrier along the border, it has been compelled to send the National Guard to deal with the consequences.

Russia's launched multiple hypersonic weapons as part of their invasion of the Ukraine and China is continuing to develop its own hypersonic weapons.

I am deeply concerned, however, that the administration's failure to direct the appropriate resources to the crisis at the southern border has resulted in shifting the burden to the Guard.

A lot of people, including this Senator, believe that the request is not enough considering the problems in the world.