Sir, with all due respect, there is a crisis at our Southwest Border, and you are failing in your very important duty.

That is enough to kill 2.5 billion people, every American 8 times over, sir.

In essence, we lost a small city because of fentanyl in 2021.

Twenty-five loans a year is so low it is honestly a little bit offensive that that is considered an exemption.

the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is using resources at its disposal to create rules to add to these very real pressures instead of mitigating them.

Thank you for your leadership and for focusing this committee's attention on securing America's maritime border.

We are on a pace to double last year's numbers, and the Coast Guard is being stretched extremely thin.

The reality in which we live is that in the last fiscal year, in the 12 months of fiscal year 2022, the Coast Guard interdicted 12,000 migrants at sea.

We are frustrated that the President and Secretary Mayorkas have failed to enforce those laws and properly utilize those resources.

Most of us in this room and back at home learned in about the 11th grade that, in the Legislative branch, we pass the laws, and we appropriate and authorize the money; and the Executive branch enforces the laws and spends that money.

The Federal Government has a responsibility to secure our border.