We know that in the last two years since President Biden took office, we have seen an incredible amount of progress.

I want to congratulate the work in the last two years for the incredible savings and really reforms that have made our government work better for the American people.

It was President Trump and his Administration that was really facilitating the closures and trying to get us reopened, and it was a total disaster.

Despite of all this incredible progress the last Congress made, the President made, Republicans are still trying to propose cuts across our government, which is really unacceptable.

I just want to note that these insane ideas have been proposed by former President Trump and Members of our very body here in the Congress.

It is unfortunate that so many choose to forget that immigrants make contributions to this country and can become secretaries of departments and Members of Congress.

I think it is important to note that by seeing what has happened today and the rhetoric around this really important conversation, that the Majority is not really serious about any solutions, but they are serious about a radical…

We also know the challenges that we face at the border are not challenges that you can take on your own and not just the responsibility of your Department.

It is important to note that this committee itself cannot have credibility to discuss sensitive intelligence information if Members of the Majority are going to publicly defend people who continue to leak top secret information, which is…

I also want to address this idea that it has been said over and over again that the military is being used by the woke left for some sort of social engineering agenda.

I think it is important to remember that we have been diversifying our military for decades and so this has been a priority of the United States.

Was it woke for President Truman to desegregate the armed forces in 1948?