Alejandro Mayorkas: “We believe the law permits the exercise of that authority. And that is why we are pursuing that authority in court.”

In fact, election security is one of our priorities.

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.

I have said now repeatedly it is a crisis.

I believe that it is State and local election officials that monitor the eligibility of individuals.