Our National Guard and Reserve perform a vast and critical role in our national defense.

We want to ensure your departments receive the necessary resources to remain a ready and lethal force.

Their unwavering commitment has been particularly evident over the last year as thousands have been deployed at unprecedented rates.

It is an affront to this Committee and to Congress's power of the purse, but worse: it makes the work of our dedicated Border Patrol agents more difficult and more dangerous.

I believe that the Rule of Law must be restored for the good of this country.

I think it's an affront to this committee and to a lot of us for Congress and to Congress's power of the purse.

Since President Biden took office, your Department has impounded these funds, in direct violation of federal law.

What is the plan for these 19,000 illegal immigrants and how are you planning to track them once they've been let into the country?

Many of my Democratic colleagues have sought to make it about politics and race.

The Rule of Law, the very foundation upon which America was built, is paramount to our future as Americans and the future of our democracy.

Domestic violent extremists threaten the Rule of Law but so, too, does turning a blind eye to the flood of illegal immigration at our southern border.

Mr. Secretary, in the past 5 years Congress has directly provided the Department of Homeland Security with billions of dollars for the construction of a border wall.