Mayorkas appeared before the House Homeland Security committee to testify on President Bidens 2025 budget request. The secretary stressed the need for the house to pass the senates bipartisan bill as he faced criticism from republicans through his handling of the crisis at the southern border. The hearing ended shortly before the house delivered impeachment articles against the secretary to the senate. This is about three hours. [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 joining the committees budget that you and President Biden put forth the department of Homeland Security. March 1 the department celebrated its 21st anniversary, and i want to thank the Public Servants throughout hhs that dedicate their lives to securing the homeland. This work is vital to the nations safety and security. Mr. Secretary, when you took the oath of office use for two, quote, suppor
Have more to fear today so we have questions why and that is about who should be discussing how come there is more extremism and how to address it. Clearly mornings killings prisons violations of for sovereignty more than it or homes itll have spent of people has not worked because we have more of it today there was the taliban there was this there was a high that we have. On top of it so how come investor question we have in and we are seeking answers for these questions not more bombs you know the president on job realized some of the answers winning understood that the Obama Administration and perhaps catalyzed ice is in your country and that was that was the reason he used the bow. He understand that that was not the reason they use that bomb even if that was the reason we strongly as a people disagree with it. You cannot just throw your biggest bomb on a people. Because you want to kill a few individuals. And join the environment into the village the air the water the agriculture
Kc and the sunshine band is just one of the many bands performing on the capitol lawn tomorrow evening. To actually be here at the capitol, the nations capitol performing tonight, going to be one of those pinch me wow moments that i will never forget. Reporter long before the show starts at the capitol, the nats will face off with the giants tomorrow morning at nats park but is where you will find actor bradley built ford, hosting the concert with the National Symphony tomorrow night. I want them to crush the giants, im all nats. Reporter at noon, the foo fighters and eight other bands will rock rfk stadium and of course, the National Mall will be packed with those going to the Folklife Festival and the fireworks. Some the places off the mall where you can see the fireworks lincoln park, east capitol street, meridian hill, we have lots of folks to gather in those areas, a little bit further away, stale good view but a little further away from the maddening crowds. Reporter this is the
Pulled together. Reporter that does not come without some risk. Some officers who have been helping out in fire zones have had to evacuate their own families. Officers are doing what they can. This park police spent the day collecting water and other supplies that they will bring to First Responders and other residences. What we asked to make sure that our firefighters are successful is to leave the area when you are told to do so. While fires are burning out of control in the north bay and more than one dozen people have been killed as firefighters ordered new evacuations. These firefighters are getting a state of Emergency Declaration from President Donald Trump. Tonight, at least that the people are confirmed dead and 2000 homes and businesses have burned. Thousands more homes are threatened from the fires that continue to raise two parts of sonoma, napa, mendocino, and lake counties. We are seeing even more homes destroyed by fires today. Our helicopter was over santa rosa today an
Good morning. I want to welcome the secretary back today. This is her first times since being confirmed. I want to thank you for appearing before us today to discuss the reauthorization. We are working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill hopefully during this work. How and we appreciate the administrations engagement. Already this year the committee has held hearings on a range of topics underpinning the effort including safety, drone policy, aircraft certification, consumer concerns and infrastructure financing. One of the key issues we have not yet focused on but has been discussed over the last two years and occurs in other parts of the world is whether the United States should separate the air traffic fund from the faa and create a nongovernmental notforprofit corporation to do the job. T the faa runs a safe operation that outside auditors have teamed up a performance on delivering safety and efficiency upgrades prompting a debate as to the best path forward to realize the