colleagues, I rise today to address the nomination of Governor Kristi Noem to serve as the next Secretary of Homeland Security. I think we will all agree that there are very few jobs more important to the safety and security of American…

I mean, its offensive. It's insulting. It's never been done before in the history of our country, as I think prior speakers have said.

I'm hopeful that despite the president's political rhetoric and attacks, that people like Senator Rick Scott, former governor of Florida, who knows what it is to deal with the disaster. Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina, whose state…

Can you imagine if President Biden told the people of Florida, I'm not going to give you disaster relief unless you change your gun laws or Louisiana with your abortion laws. It's unconscionable.

And we expect the federal government in our country to be there for us without conditions, without strings attached. So, to suggest that is unconscionable.

The level of water flowing to Southern California from the north today is the exact same as it was during the first Trump administration.

Look, it's a power grab by the by the new President Trump and his administration. They're going to try to bend the agencies and the Department of Justice, for that matter, to their will.

President Trump earlier today did promise to usher in a, quote, golden age for America quickly, though, portraying a declining country that's failing its citizens, a failure that Trump says he'll reverse.

But the people who have been here for years, if not decades, like Dreamers, like farmers, like other essential workers that make our country tick, that's a whole different population.

He comes in with an aggressive agenda. He hasn't signed the executive orders that we're expecting, but from what we've heard -- some that are legally dubious, some that are outright unconstitutional.

He cannot unilaterally change that. But that's the conversation and the chaos. He wants to create.

The largest deportation operation in our country's history is going to carry a lot of innocent people and a lot of people who are critical to the economy, to our communities, and to our national security.