Alejandro Mayorkas: “We are facing a serious challenge at our southern border. And the challenges of course made more acute and more…”

I would welcome the opportunity to work with you to increase the Coast Guard's budget quite significantly.

Chair Murray, we continue to believe that the resources and the legislative changes that were contained in the Bipartisan Legislation are greatly needed by our Department and would really advance our mission.

To fund us insufficiently is really going to handicap our ability to realize the full benefits of this transformative legislation.

We need Congress to act swiftly to fund what should be a nonpartisan, apolitical phenomenon, and that is providing relief to all individuals with respect to the impacts of these extreme weather events.