Richard Shelby: “NOAA represents more than 60 percent of your Department's budget at $5.6 billion.”

As Senator Shelby at our Senate testimony hearing last March pointed out to us, we must maintain what we have before we can build new, and I think he hits the mark head-on.

A complex and evolving security environment requires a serious commitment to our national defense.

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.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.