On the recordJanuary 24, 2024
Madam President, this past Saturday, January 20, marked 3 years since President Biden took his oath of office. Since then, President Biden has had nearly 1,100 days in the White House to enact the policies that he campaigned on. I can tell you what has been clear to me. The lives of Americans are not better now than they were 3 years ago. Our country is not safer than it was 3 years ago, and the state of the Union is not stronger than it was 3 years ago. Time and again, President Biden has let his tenure be defined by weakness, as opposed to strength. This lack of leadership has had negative implications across a variety of sectors of American life and left millions of people across the country and the world in situations that were unavoidable. It just really doesn't have to be this way, President Biden. Perhaps, none of the Biden administration failures is as glaringly obvious as the one at the southern border, which I have talked about numerous times from this desk, and the continued fallout we are seeing as a result of a President who is, basically, asleep at the switch on this issue or ignoring it or maybe encouraging it. There have been 6.7 million illegal encounters at the southern border on his watch. It is hard to imagine the scope of what 6.7 million human encounters really mean. But think of it this way: Only 17 U.S. States have a population higher than 6.7 million. Mine, of course, is not one of those.…





