Brian Higgins

A default on American debt would not only destroy the American economy with high recession, lost household savings, lost retirement savings, but it would drag the entirety of the world economy down with it.

The proposed Biden budget of $6.9 trillion is about 29 percent of the U.S. economy.

We have defined operational control in this bill based on the oversight work of the committee.

Let me also try to clarify very quickly before I raise questions with one of the witnesses.

According to Customs and Border Protection data, drug smuggling across the Northern Border has increased by nearly 600 percent since fiscal year 2021.

Fentanyl is the leading cause of death among adults in the United States, taking more lives each year than car accidents, suicide, heart disease, or cancer.

The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol acknowledged in his testimony that we do not have operational control of the Southern Border.

President Biden's open border policies and Secretary Mayorkas' refusal to enforce our Nation's laws have jeopardized national security at the U.S.-Canada border.

I am committed to making sure that as we proceed in appropriations, I am on the authorizing this committee that we work very hard to ensure funding for the needs of our border patrols, our CBP, some of the physical infrastructure.

Let me count myself as a strong fighter and opponent to that, along with the Biden administration.

Drug trafficking along the Northern Border is increasing exponentially.

Let's be more accurate in our assessment.

The President's proposed budget would provide $66 million for the construction of a new Border Patrol facility in Maine.

I urge you to push the Department to work with Canada to end the NEXUS backlogs that have piled up due to bureaucracy.

I oppose efforts to expand temporary duty travel. These assignments take officers away from their families and community for extended periods of time.

I hope we can all remember that shared humanity.

Today, fentanyl is the leading cause of death among adults in the United States, taking more lives each year than car accidents, suicide, heart disease, or cancer.

Drug trafficking along the Northern Border is increasing exponentially.

The proximity to our unsecured Northern Border with Canada is increasingly becoming a liability as the effects of the Biden administration's disastrous immigration and border security policies become a part of my constituents' everyday…

Congress must also ensure that working conditions for border agents are optimal.

There should be a dedicated Northern Border infrastructure fund to pay for improvements to land ports of entry.

I support the agreement that President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau announced last week to address irregular migration.

The United States and Canada have a unique and special relationship.

Let's not compromise our relationship with our northern neighbors who have been good neighbors.

We need each other. We have all kinds of examples of that in Buffalo and Western New York.