We promised them we would protect them when they worked with our servicemen and women in Afghanistan.

I do believe that it was an unintended consequence that needs to be fixed.

If you go back to its inception in the '60s, under President Kennedy and the Cold War, it was to counter the Soviet Union. We need to return to the core mission principles.

this Congress and Administration will continue as we have for the last three decades to support you in these efforts.

Make no mistake, Georgia's foreign agents law has ruptured Georgia's relationship with the West.

your actions have not and will not go unanswered.

I believe that the vast majority of the citizens in both countries are eager for a closer partnership with the United States.

As I speak with you at this minute, Chinese nationals are illegally crossing our Southwest Border in historic numbers and preparing for their second crime, asylum fraud.

This administration tolerates mass illegal entry and asylum fraud, but we are here today because the administration seems equally accommodating to a direct national security threat this human flow poses.

Biden's own 2024 DHS threat assessment predicts much more than rapacious economic espionage.

U.S. counterintelligence agencies must assume Beijing is already injecting agents into this flow.