"If you take care of your people, all the other stuff is going to work much better."
"But we need certainly to protect the budget where it deals with fentanyl. We can't let it continue to come."
"Certainly, we have asked the Mexican Government to help us on fentanyl, they have not been helpful."
"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."
"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."
"The cost of these natural disasters, $171 billion. That is what NOAA estimated in 2022."
"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."
"You know, ask for what you think you need. You know, don't be shy."
"Your folks are on the road and looking at tremendous emergencies and human devastation."
"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."
"I have heard about the administration's considering restarting the detention of families. While some had posed a public safety risk, I get it."