Thank you, Chairman Tiffany and Ranking Member Neguse for holding this hearing, and I want to thank Chairman Westerman and your staff for your leadership on the issues before us today.

I urge this committee to seriously consider my bipartisan legislation H.R. 3508 for mark-up.

The border crisis has led to many unaccompanied migrant children being released to live with strangers who could exploit them.

As a mother, as a grandmother, and now it pains me to think that there are children in this country not enjoying the care, protection, and the love of their own parents.

Our Southern Border continues to be an urgent national security, humanitarian, and public health crisis.

I introduced H.R. 3508, the Comprehensive Southern Border Strategy Act. This is a bipartisan bill to create a southern border strategy to secure every mile of our border.

Now more than ever, is very important that any border legislation that is considered has input from both sides of the aisle.

Even the President is accountable to Congress and to the power of the purse, and the CFPB should not be the exception to longstanding constitutional rules.

From its inception, the way the CFPB was designed disregarded longstanding checks and balances.

The CFPB, in the name of consumer protection, is being used to divert the public's attention from the real challenges faced by individuals and families.

Unfortunately, you don't mention inflation once in your testimony.