Brian Schatz: “It's essential that we listen to the needs of our Native communities.”

These are not bureaucratic mix-ups. Every day this money doesn't get to where it's supposed to go; every contribution, worth hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, is delayed, people go hungry. People get sick. People die.

We are the good guys. And when a batch of aid – medicine or communications infrastructure or food – arrives with that little patch with the United States of America on it, people go, 'Help is on the way. The good guys are here.'

I appreciated hearing directly from leaders who are working every day to get more housing built about what we can do to help.

I go back to the original five objectives. And none of them have been met. Some of them have changed, but none of them have been met.