John Katko

Well, then give more money and that would help.

A 6 percent increase, given what is going on with cybersecurity in this country right now, just isn't cutting the mustard.

I think it is fair to say that if you had more funding for it, if you had some funding for it, it would enhance that even better.

Unfortunately, since you were last before the committee, the crisis at the border has not gotten better.

This is not a laughing matter.

Despite these numbers, by eliminating border wall funding, President Biden is allowing cartels, smugglers, criminals, and traffickers to continue exploiting the border.

The crisis at the border has not gotten better. In fact, it is trending worse.

The budget simply fails to reflect the priorities that are critical to the defense of the homeland.

I am pleased the Biden administration is doing the hard work necessary to address the situation at the border for the long term.

I want to commend the administration's release this week of the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.

The President has submitted the largest budget request, by far, in the history of the United States--$6 trillion dollars.

This budget proposal manages to somehow be incredibly bloated, while at the same time, lack the funding we need to protect the homeland.

Unfortunately, ransomware attacks are becoming a more pervasive threat and I feel that we, as a country, continue to fall further and further behind.

I believe that CISA needs to be a $5 billion agency in 5 years, and that is not going to happen with meager increases like you propose in this budget.

That is completely unacceptable, and Homeland Republicans will continue pressuring the administration to reverse its disastrous Executive Orders.

There is enough fentanyl that crossed the border this year already to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States.

This fiscally irresponsible budget is enacted, our children and our children's children, at a minimum, will be paying for it.

The President has submitted the largest budget request by far in the history of the United States, $6 trillion.

The President's budget proposal allows for not a single additional Border Patrol agent, despite a 20-year high in migrant numbers.

I am troubled that the Biden administration has reportedly removed important protections related to vetting the sponsors to whom unaccompanied children are released.

I have now taken 2 trips to the Southern Border in the last couple of months to see the situation first-hand.

The stories my colleagues and I heard from the front-line men and women of Homeland Security about the dueling humanitarian security and public health crises were incredibly disturbing.

Like I said, I have taken 2 trips to the border and that is something that has not been done by either President Biden or Vice President Harris.

Increasingly, drug cartels use children as pawns to distract Border Patrol agents as illicit drugs are smuggled across the border.

Some of these children arrive alone and afraid with nothing but the clothes on their backs.