Donald Payne: “Damage from the 2017 natural disasters broke records and made last year the costliest year for disaster-related damage…”

I stand with you. Instead of letting senseless actions take place, it is long overdue that we do what makes the most sense and take significant action to stop this from ever happening again.

I hope the witnesses here today will help me understand why the Department rushed to reorganize--without Congressional authorization--at a time when permanent leaders were in place in only one of the impacted offices.

To be clear, working with the administration to make DHS operate better is a bipartisan priority.

Such vague explanations are little justification for setting a disruptive reorganization in motion.