But we need certainly to protect the budget where it deals with fentanyl. We can't let it continue to come.

The government is willing to tolerate having the heads of the cartels run the cartel. We know where they are, we know who they are, and they are OK with that.

Drug overdoses impact every community. Overdoses contribute to the premature deaths of, now, over 100,000 Americans every year.

Seventy-three million cars coming across the border at legal ports of entry, 200,000 a day, you know, we have really got to use technology, or we have got no shot.

Your unfunded priority list includes a need for a facility in Baltimore. Can you discuss the importance of this facility and your plans on any funding for future appropriations?

I remain concerned that flight crews are not adequately prepared with the tools and training to respond to opioid overdoses.

I have heard about the administration's considering restarting the detention of families. While some had posed a public safety risk, I get it.

If you don't take care of the family, the member--the guard is not going to be successful, no question about it.

So there hasn't been a partnership, so to speak. And I think a lot of Americans are fed up with it. We are fed up with 100,000 deaths.

Your folks are on the road and looking at tremendous emergencies and human devastation.

If you take care of your people, all the other stuff is going to work much better.

You know, ask for what you think you need. You know, don't be shy.

I don't call that partnership. That is a different word. It is hardly partners when they don't partner the whole way up to the top.

Your budget request in 2024 has asked for an increase in the tools to assist in stopping these networks in human smuggling, fentanyl killing 100,000 Americans every year.

Budgets communicate priorities, and it is clear by this request that the President's priority is not securing our border.

The Coast Guard has been underfunded for years.

I would be happy to support that as you move forward and you put that to the top of your list.

The cost of these natural disasters, $171 billion. That is what NOAA estimated in 2022.

Certainly, we have asked the Mexican Government to help us on fentanyl, they have not been helpful.

I take exception that we have a point, that we do have a revenue problem. We blew a hole in the revenue problem when we dropped that corporate rate from 35 down to 21.

I think it is lower than that. I believe he is wrong on that point, but we can follow up on that and get back and I would appreciate that.

our country seems to be headed for a debt crisis, and as my colleague said earlier, this is not the first time that we face this dangerous brinksmanship, and it is wholly disingenuous.

A revenue problem, a revenue problem, which the Wharton Econometric study and everybody else estimates at $2 trillion over ten years.

Talking about a rate that nobody pays, that is just BS in my mind.

I absolutely agree with you 100 percent.