"Mr. Secretary, this budget proposal is an insult to every American."
"After assault-style weapons were used to kill 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, 23 people in El Paso (including eight Mexicans) and 26 in Sutherland Springs--all in his home State of Texas--Crensh..."
"These men and women are proud to fulfill their duty to secure our border, and they do this with no thanks, no support, and no recognition from your administration."
"Mr. Secretary, every time you fail to acknowledge this is a crisis, you lose even more credibility with the men and women of DHS."
"If the CCP tells ByteDance to turn over all data that TikTok has collected inside the U.S., even within Project Texas, do they have to do so, according to Chinese law?"
"China's 2017 national intelligence law states very clearly that 'any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work in accordance with the law.'"
"Your parent company is ByteDance, right?"
"TikTok is able to collect massive amounts of personal data. We all know that."
"More Americans died just in 2021 from fentanyl than the entire Vietnam War."
"This is a poisoning problem, and it is poisoning almost 80,000 Americans a year, and it is coming from two specific organizations: the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel."
"We have a common enemy in the Mexican drug cartels."