Henry Cuellar: “I just want to make sure that you understand that comes from our committee.”

I voted for the National Defense Authorization Act to strengthen our national defense while improving the pay, housing, and childcare for our service members and their families.

And I'll tell you something, if they want to come after me because I was a critic about open borders, that's one thing. But you don't bring the family in. You just don't do that.

This last appropriation bill, the current one, we have enacted funding for 2024 an additional $570 million.

With the current resource limitations, I am very concerned about your agency's capacity to defend against the threats that you just mentioned, especially when you said, it is only the tip of an iceberg.