The Homeland Security secretary testified before the Security Committee on the 2025 budget request and the hearing entered before the house delivered two impeachment articles against him to the senate in both of those were later dismissed. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the committee may recess at any point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for the committee will come to order and without objection the committee may recess at inany point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for joining the committee to discuss the budget that you and the president have put forth for the department of Homeland Security and on march 1 the department celebrated its 21st anniversary. I want to thank the Public Servants throughout dhs to dedicate their lives to securing the homeland in this work is vital that the safety of the nation and the security. When you took the oath of office, you swore to support and defend the constitution o
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Minutes. [inaudible conversations] [background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and ransom the federal government
Its about an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and rans
[background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and ransom the federal government itself still store Sensitive Data