this administration needs to do more. when you ask from a funding, when we talk to the border control, they say that this administration continues to do things to tie their hands. the recent announcement was title 42, that is only making the illegal border crossings to significantly increased. sen. maloney: time is expired. >> this administration is going to have to get serious. you can't have that she can't have a community hearing on the national drug control strategy and the federal response without addressing these crises at the southern border. this administration's response is substandard and only making a bad situation worse. sen. maloney: you are now recognized. >> thank you for being here with us today. i know addiction is a could go issue, even as my colleagues focused so much on some of the immigration policies, i know within our country we just have not done enough to push back and understand or push back on this rhetoric that we do not have a substance abuse issue in our country. especially with even some leg

let me quickly move on, administrator. my apologies from earlier faux pas, i'm sorry about that. 18% of the unhoused community in houston said that they were homeless. homelessness is a real problem. and i have worked with people, i am a hands on congress person, as is the case of many of my colleagues. i have worked with all of these people. i know the difficulty they have when we have these natural disasters. my question to you is this, those who are experiencing homelessness, what can we do to assure that they will get the proper assistance that they merit when we have these catastrophes? >> homelessness is certainly an issue that is increasing across our nation. it is compounded even more for those individuals after a natural disaster. again, i would offer the assistance of my regional administrator and my team with to work with communities to help them with their preparedness plans. individuals are always eligible to request assistance and register for assistance through fema, once a natural disaster has been declared

the trump administration. very much appreciate that and pleased to hear about designation of the irg see remaining and the administration supposing additional sanctions. i'm also pleased with the acknowledgment of the review by congress. i want to go back when this agreement was entered into in 2015, that arguments was made being in an agreement with iran on a nuclear agreement, with additional progress to normalize relations with iran and deal with nonnuclear issues. we didn't see any progress after we joined the jc poa. when donald trump was deciding whether to withdraw from the jc poa, i agree with chairman menand as, that was a terrible decision to withdraw but the european allies met with us on capitol hill. we had their attention. they did very visible action with the united states to move iran along. we didn't see any progress from iran or willingness to deal with these other issues. we are talking about rejoining the jc poa. i've not seen very visible action by our european allies in regards to iran's

first, let's hear from the biden administration. michael regan is the epa administrator.e joins me from new orleans. administrator, thank you very much for joining us. how much of a setback is it for your efforts to regulate greenhouse gases? >> thank you for having me. i am deeply disappointed in the supreme court's decision today, actually very frustrated. the decision does constrain what we do, but let me be clear, it doesn't take us out of the game. we still will be able to regulate climate pollution and we will use all the tools in our toolbox to do so. the constraint we are seeing today prevents us as a country from making progress as quickly as we need to preview climate action presents an opportunity for this country to assure global competitiveness, lower cost for families and protect people's health and well-being, especially those who have suffered from the burden of inaction for far too long. so yes, today's action is a disappointing action, it's devastating in many ways, as the president has said, but it doesn't take us out of the game. we will continue to ha

with the administration.nd in strengthening fema's infrastructure personnel. i think we already discussed this. and -- clearly i want to provide a support system that fema staffing needs. would you again, for the record, restate the importance of ensuring the mental well-being -- the financial resources and payments and the sensitivity to fema employees having to move around leaving their homes most of the time to address disasters? >> i appreciate your ongoing support and commitment to our workforce. we cannot do what we do without them. they are incredible -- a service of the public. as i stated earlier, we are taking a look at how we can better structure our workforce to see an increase in demand of the natural disasters we are experiencing. we will provide technical drafting assistance to you for the bill you have put forward. >> i wanted to emphasize the mental health that i have seen working in very stressful moments, it is some of those fundings -- are they working to ensure their well-being as it rela

trump administration had done. what are the actual implications now? >> reporter: that's right, poppy. we don't expect an immediate change because, as you mentioned, this hasstill has to to the lower courts. it allowed authorities to turn migrants back to mexico while they waited for their u.s. immigration court date. now, many, over 68,000 migrants, had been put under this policy. now we're learning from the supreme court that the biden administration can end it. of course there's still a legal route that that needs to be taken, but what it means big picture is that, yes, border crossings remain high, and the biden administration has been grappling with that for months. and they are still using a separate policy known as the title 42. that's a trump-era pandemic emergency rule to turn back migrants. now, the biden administration had already implemented this policy because of lower courts. that is the remain in mexico policy. so there are some migrants, some 5,000 migrants who are in mexico under this policy right

the economic forecast and biden administration policies. they say that if you do not learn from history you are condemned to repeat it. the thing that amazed me more than anything else is that throughout history our country has always had an economic problem. so what i'm saying is that there have been things that have taken place even before i was born. my parents dealt with the depression and world war ii. i was born in 1948 in new york city and there was a lot of economic problems there. the thing about it is i do not know what the economic forecast is going to be. it's kind of like prophetic. you have to wait and see. stir biden's president right now but we don't know how things will be with the next administration matter who it's going to be. this is when most americans say we are in debt. most americans are living and dead. the governments got to straighten up but i want to live the way i want. >> i think one of the things that i would take away from that question is that it's really important that there be bipartisan legislation. if o

that is what was lacking under the prior administration. the supreme court ruling today and hopefully a similar conclusion to the title 42 debate, i think, can push this administration in that direction. that's the bottom line. >> senator, let's talk a little more broadly about this session overall. do you see a pattern in this particular court's decision-making? >> i think -- i'm very concerned. despite the decision on the remain in mexico program here this morning, we saw what the supreme court did years ago when it came to voting rights. just this session alone, the extreme wing of the conservative wing of the supreme court undoing 50 years of protection of roe v. wade, the decision on the conceal carry case out of new york, rolling back gun safety at the worst possible time in the wake of the uvalde tragedy, among others. and now this ruling that undermines the federal government's ability to tackle the climate crisis, which is real, existential. here today, clear and present danger. not something theoretic 15, 20 years from now. the su

the administration has been messaging on inflation for months.e see the data, people are not buying it. they feel bad about the outlook of the economy in months to come. so it is a difficult position for the administration to find itself in. >> going back to the great point about the challenge the white house faces. what are they dealing with and the overall mood? folks sound like they are overwhelmed, but like this is what the white house has to deal with. >> the mood is sour. in the country and the white house. so much is going on. the biggest problem we have been talking about the entire show is there is not much the white house can do for some of these issues. on inflation, guns, things american people want them to do. >> i should also say that they did not tell president biden about the baby formula. it wasn't until april. they are also walking back statements. there is a frustration. >> like a flurry of what seems like missteps. especially talking to the administration and asking why the president was not briefed on infant formula when the

the administrator for the federal emergency management agency. miss chris well is the 12th administrative of the federal emergency management agency and is the first senate confirmed woman to lead the agency. prior to her appointment, administrator criswell was the commissioner for the new york emergency management department. she coordinated emergency planning, and response, for all emergencies, including covid 19. previously, administrator criswell worked for fema as a federal coordinating officer where she was the primary federal representative responsible for leading the agency's response during declared disasters. without objection, the witnesses full statement will be inserted in the record. i now ask administrator criswell to summarize her statement for five minutes. good morning. >> good morning, chairwoman, ranking member cammack, members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to talk about our fiscal year 2023 budget request. as you have mentioned in your statements, the field of emergency management is at a pivotal m

he also took advantage of the biden's administration's refusal-- and he doesn't fear the biden administrationwith the use of military force or any other measures and that's why he's going to do for decades what he's done the past decades, escalate as restrictions sunset and intensify and regime against sanction pressures using this trillion dollar windfall and develop nuclear icbm's to hold our city hostage. there's plan b. i have 16 recommendations in my testimony to cover that and look forward to discussing those and others in the q & a. thank you very much. >> thank you both for your testimony. mr. sajapour, you've made an interesting comment and i've made it, about the iranian people and iranian opposition, it seems to me that we have lost the mark, we certainly lost it during the green revolution and we lost that opportunity. but what do you think we should be doing more divisively has relates to iranian opposition and the iranian people? >> thank you for that question, mr. chairman. i'm reminded of henry kissinger's quote there shall knew nations in the world with whom the united states

i appreciate the administration's commitment to that. also, glad that the hearing has unveiled that the treasury department is now in a significant sanctions mode on what you just described, i had not heard that before. i'm glad to hear that. , also glad to see that there has now been public confirmation that the president has made a determination not to revoke the irgc foreign terrorist organization designation, despite iranian demands. i salute the president and the administration for keeping on that designation. those are all positive things. as i listen to your testimony, i heard a lot of it focus on the trump administration system. it was a mistake, i didn't support the jcpoa, i didn't think it was strong enough, it dealt with the issues that it needed to deal with. i didn't support the trump administration to -- without a strategy. and we didn't see the results of that. having said, that you've had a long time since then in these negotiations. and iran has not shown itself at this point, you did not have a deal. what we do have is

administrative power the agency has. john roberts, capping carbon dioxide emissions away from coal to generate electricity may be a sensible solution to the crisis of the day but not plausible that congress gave authority to adopt such a regulatory scheme, a decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with congress itself or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation, that is a position that justice kagan could not get on board where. she said the court appoints its self instead of congress or the decision maker on climate policy, i cannot think of many things more frightening. so disagree about that, they agree on welcoming a new colleague. justice breyer has officially retired a short time ago. judge ketanji brown jackson was sworn in, a very warm welcome, an applause, and now more formal after this week. >> shannon bream due for a long vacation. >> sandra: and thank you for this, and the remain in mexico warning. sir, thank you very much for joining us. obviously want to get your reaction to the supreme cour

the trump administration did the first step in 2018. and then they dropped the process, largely because their energy dominants rhetoric caused a lot of alarm. it caused a lot of pushback. so, it is appropriate for us to take a step, be deliberate, as we think about potential future leasing described in a five-year program. with that statement says, by the end of june, we'll take step number two. it's just step number two in a three-step process. no decisions by leasing will be made until step number three. that's all that says. >> with all due respect, let me to say this. i'm told that we always got your step one, which you intend to do on june 30th a lot longer than the deadline. a lot of time in between. we would've had time to go to step two and three and a value it where you are going. if i send it clear to say no that you're looking at what's going to basically provide the assuredly that we can continue to provide for ourselves in america, the cleanest energy coming from the gulf, we're getting this at the last possible day, the la

are we stuck with what we have until the next administration, the presidential administration or willt change in congress change the policies that were in? >> to your question will things change, i think taking the house and the senate back will stop a lot of things, will it fix everything, no i think anyone who sells that is selling you a fake bill of goods we will have control of the first strings which will do a tremendous deal in stopping this into the socialist utopia of government fixes everything that's a problem that were seen out of the administration. it's a one-size-fits-all approach whenever they have a problem they want to throw more money as evidence that they spent more than $7 trillion just last year. let's not us forget the nancy pelosi never put forth the budget they spend that will like is monopoly money for getting it to be the american people that are actually footing the bill for this. we cannot afford we need to resource balance and that's what americans want common sense and balance in our nations capital and republicans in november, we are going to give it to

is direct reflection on the biden administration. >> it shows this administration continues to emphasize and encourage the crisis that we see on the border and there is no end in sight. we look to the future, look toward what can be done at the border, this administration is trying to pull down title 42. >> brooke: in april, u.s. border patrol officials reported 200,000 at the border. they will release data very soon. >> carley: thank you. listen to this. the u.s. and south korea issue response as north korea recent ballistic missile test into the waters off the korean east coast. the south newly elected president is vowing to be tougher in response to provocation by kim jong-un regime. >> todd: political statement on guns ahead of the n.b.a. finals. both head coaches wore t-shirts that said end gun violence. golden state crushing boston, evening the series 1-1. game three in boston on wednesday. >> carley: tampa bay rays players declining to wear pride night gear during saturday's game. the team debuted special uniforms in support of the lgbtq community and players were given the choice

the biden administration has done this. what i would say, madam chair, why don't we do something about it? how about in this committee right here, how about if we take action? this is an important issue certainly to the people, as we see with the numbers. this is important to all of americans. we have no controls on the border. we have no idea what is in our country. fentanyl is follow -- is flowing freely in our communities. lastly, a district attorney allowed people off on bail that had enough into noll to kill tens of thousands of people. taxpayer funds are being used to move illegal immigrants across our country. that is what americans can continue to expect under this administration. we can do better. madam chair, we are prepared to roll up our sleeves and get solutions so we don't have another 51 migrants broiled to death down in texas. you can be assured though they make time, there is going to be many more because that is what we have been seeing since january 2021. i yield back. >> general carrero, you are being re

accounts to respond to increased activity at the border while the administration, his administration, is asking for a $614 million cuts. other parts of the department like the coast guard, the transportation security administration, the federal emergency management agency could have their funding diverted to process paperwork for illegal immigrants at the border. it is due in large part to the policies of this administration. a massive turnaround that occurred on day one and hasn't stopped since. we need to act, and they need to act on border security effectively and restore order to our immigration process. it's long past time for the immigration people to be honest with the american people about the crisis it's created and to do something about it. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: thank you, madam president. i rise today again regarding the need to secure our southern border. right now there's a caravan of migrants making it's way to the southern border. media reports that it could be the largest care caravan ever growing

of the trump administration. so it is without that i can speak a little bit about this. and the white house grounds as has been mentioned today is a historical cultural landscape and is maintained by the national park service. but it is very different than most historical landscapes. most of those, they're at a certain time. it is always maintained to look like that time. the national parks service does do that until they are told otherwise. it is still the backyard of the president and his family. and as susan said, the last major time this happened was a 1969, with introduction of the children's garden by the johnson administration. but the national parks service works very closely with the ushers office in the first family to give them what they need. whether it be long term projects or short term events or projects. the park service works with them to make sure that all those needs are met. in 2009, after the obama administration started, mrs. obama had come to the national park service and said i would reall

i now ask the administrator to summarize her statement for five minutes.d morning. >> good morning. chairwoman, ranking member and members of the subcommittee, thank you very much for inviting me here today to talk about our fiscal year 2023 budget request. as you mentioned in your statement thatod feel the emergency management of a pivotal moment. we have notel changed but the operating environment. tenn years ago, we managed an average 100 a disasters now it is 348 with the ongoing response to the ongoing pandemic. the changing climate is the biggest crisis we have seen it makes natural disasters more frequent and destructive at the same time structural inequities are compounding the impacts of disasters for underserved communities and our budget request insures the agency can meet these challenges and help people before and during and after disasters.re the budget request supports the three goals in our plan. first as an agency we must instill equity as a foundation of emergencydg management and recognize that disasters affect individuals different. our

my comment was, as far as my faith in the biden administration, or any administration for that matter, these things appear to be, when science comes into play, when we look at it through a scientific lens, these are systemic things that come in cycles. there's no one thing that any administration can do to change it. there's no one thing that caused it. there's so many variables. that is why we are talking about it. it is kind of scary. i don't think it's like the great depression type of -- >> should the fed or the administration respond sooner? >> i don't think it would matter. there is a reaction. it is like on a micro scale. and that is what that is. it is like a small reaction. it is like a macro issue. i don't think it would really matter if they had responded sooner. it will balance out itself. people will change their behavior. whether they know it or not. even unconsciously, they will change their behavior at the gas pump, at the grocery store, they will change their behavior and a lot of ways. >> i appreciate that. a couple of comments on twitter. steve has this one. saying,

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there will be successor administrations and successor administrations is quite likely that a featuredwill immediately move to restore pressure on iran and its proxies and is very likely to revoke any flavors were licenses granted and as a result the conduct of the biden administration is exposing her allies to serious. >> senator these sets of arrangements, press the arrangements came out precisely because of concern on the part of the governments of jordan and egypt and indeed a number of others about the prospect of lebanon to collapse given the diminishing level of energy available and the resort by hezbollah to bring in sanctioned iranian oil. they didn't go to the national electricity grid just to the black market. this is a way to transparently and the theory of the arrangement will transparently provide life-sustaining and economy sustaining energy to the public because otherwise the state itself is owned the -- of collapse. >> to doesn't give the frustration the ability to disregard mandatory sanctions by congress. a final question you mentioned hezbollah the united states is

is the administration lying to us at this point?istration wants to continue to put their head in the sand as it relates to inflation. we are way behind the 8 ball. we have a big problem ahead of us. we need to do everything we can to stop the run away spending in washington that's fueling inflationary environment that we see. gets spending under control. the administration want to do anything but. we are behind the 8 ball. we have got challenging waters ahead of us. hopefully we can hold off a recession. it's going to take policy changes in washington like unleashing american energy to prevent a true recession from coming. >> griff: we shall see if that happens midterms. a lot of focus on the pain americans are feeling at the pump and at the grocery store and everywhere else. bryan steil congressman, thank you for taking time with us this morning. have a great rest of your week. >> thank you. >> griff: all right. you know, ashley, it was great to join you today. obviously the congressman just talking about that inflation, that is go

this administration inherited a set of 301 tariffs and posed by the trump administration that i think really were not designed to serve our strategic interests. china certainly is i think guilty of unfair trade practices. we need to protect against, ensure our national security with our supply chains are secure and resilient. and their policies need to make sure that they address that. i believe some of the tariffs did not serve really, and it being paid by americans, not by the chinese, hurt american consumers and businesses, and we are taking a look at those and looking to be able to address, to reconfigure those tariffs in a way that would be more strategic. so -- >> do we have anything finalize? is or any timeline as to where we can have an additional conversation on that? >> i think in the coming weeks we expected, i can't give you a firm timeline, but with respect to the exclusion process and tariffs, that's something that's under active consideration. >> thank the gentlelady. let me recognize ms. chu to inquire. >> secretary yellen, thank you so much for being here, and i would

administration.g to change china's mind all of a sudden moving from authoritarian regime to a market based economy. they're probably trying to use it as leverage, and i'm sure trade policy is just a tool to try to -- there's some other major geopolitical issues and energy markets that might be going on at the moment that are probably more important than the tariffs so they do want to bring more manufacturing back or move things out of china a bit, then, sure, i mean, leaving the tariffs on could contribute to that but as we've seen over the past couple of years for all the tariffs we've had china is really still our number one import source on almost all of those things we put tariffs on. vietnam, a few other countries have gotten a little bit of that extra but it's going to take a lot more than tariffs to change the trading relationship. jackie: i think that's a really fair point and i thank you for making it. as we're struggling with supply chain problems too, as you mentioned, the strategy perhaps

the biden administration has taken action to reverse the damage caused by the prior administration andprevent future fraud. in the program, the biden administration implemented to identify potential fraud, directed loan officers to address indications of fraud before approving loans. and it took additional steps do make sure that applications were legitimate. further, through the american rescue plan, congress made critical investments in fraud prevention and accountability. including providingg more than $200 million in funding for watchdogs to investigate fraud, waste and abuse as well as $2 billion to support stateses modernization of unemployment insurance systems to reduce fraud vulnerabilities. the biden administration ignored the use of funds to support state efforts to make unemployment insurance systems both more accessible to the eligible recipients and less susceptible to fraud. this also supports the work of the pandemic response accountability. shared by the inspector general to practice the coordinated efforts to conduct and investigate fraud across the federal government

it is our job to perform congressional oversight over the administration. that's why republicans on the subcommittee have focused on serious issues like the cdc's school reopening guidance and the e-mails that prove the biden administration colluded with union bosses to keep millions of american children locked out of the classrooms. we now know that the social isolation and school closures caused by the covid lockdowns resulted in serious mental health issues and learning loss for millions of american kids. the last time i tried to talk about this incredibly important issue, mr. chair man, you had urged me not to look backward, stating i hope we don't spend all of our time today talking about yesterday. i am concerned about tomorrow and the day after. you went on to say all of us can spend the rest of our lives talking about what happened before covid-19 or we can spend time trying to figure out how best to move forward from whatever mistakes may have been made, whoever they have made them or we can spend all of our time assigning blame. yet here we are to

the administrations strategy on syria?ing the last presidential election secretary lincoln road when joe biden is president when joe biden is president, we will restore u.s. leadership on military issues and yet with the frozen conflict in syria leading to immense humanitarian political security dilemmas, leadership from the united states or elsewhere seems lacking. life to syria are resuming the embassies of damascus are reopening. when asad landed in march, was given a warmm welcome as any other head of state would have received. as if he had never ordered a barbaric bombardment of innocent syrian civilians, as if asad never ordered chemical weapon attacks that left children gasping for their lives. this comes within weeks of new evidence of syrian atrocities coming to light. video of asad soldiers forcing victims to climb down to a mass grave before massacring them. think of the message it sends to other dictators around the world who would wish her innocent civilians, you can commit more crimes and broad daylight on ca

as to the progress on the five year plan, as the administration, has it both ways, the administration cannot pretend to support oil and gas production while doing everything in their power to slow down and block expanded production on public lands. thank you, mister chairman. >> thank you senator, here goes my questions next, and i would like to ask the same thing about onshore and offshore, all we are asking for, can you commit to doing the leasing? i know you are doing the plan, but what we are committed to is the leasing that goes with it, there is no guarantee that that will happen on shore or offshore, and if you can't answer, i understand. if you can, is your intent to lease? >> thank you, chairman, our intent is to follow follow the law, we know that our five year plan is in the works right now, i couldn't tell you if i tried what is in that at the moment. >> let me just if i can. i am so sorry to interrupt you. never before has there not been a lease that i know of when the plan was put forward. it was put forward the intent to lease. it was followed up with leasing. you seem

the head of the lviv regional administration, maksym kozynskyi, reported that the enemy hit the yavoriv district with four rockets from this night. on june 25, today at four o'clock in the morning , six rockets were struck from the black sea area, four hits, two were knocked down . military personnel in the yavoriv district, he said, as a result of the impact, four were injured, one of medium severity, three of light severity, they were hospitalized, the fire was contained. so, please tell me if there are any mr. yuriyovych, why are we still waiting for him for 30 seconds, the second one today was a missile attack on the military units and facilities of the zhytomyr region, the head of the zhytomyr regional administration, vitaliy bonechko, stated that nothing flew over zhytomyr , military facilities around the city were fired upon, rockets were launched from planes, they came from belarus , so is belarus going to war against ukraine, i think the question is closed, a total of 24 missiles, 24 missiles were launched at military units and facilities around zhytomyr, i cannot comment, he s

guest: the trump administration, which was critical of the obama administration plan of action it, which is the name for the deal, they argued that instead of pursuing that approach, they would put more pressure on iran to negotiate a better deal. they withdrew from the agreement, which iran was complying with. what has happened since then, the situation has deteriorated. the capacity to increase material has increased. they are deploying more sophisticated centrifuges that can spin it to enrich uranium. we have what i would say is a threshold nuclear weapon state. it makes it more urgent that the by the ministration restore mutual compliance with the deal. they are still hung up over a couple of unrelated issues they haven't solved. host: the agency gets this information from iran. wide -- what's the benefit for them to allow inspectors in? guest: they are required to allow inspectors and because it is a party to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, that prohibits them from acquiring material for nuclear weapons. there are these inspections. the 2015 deal put in place even more rigorous

that is, we receive it, and then the military administrations distribute it to the people.else is aid, that is, 87-85%. it also crosses the border of ukraine, but it was received by what is, for example, a charitable organization, a religious organization, some other organization. that is, you see on your side state structures and non-state structures that further distribute this humanitarian aid at their discretion. it seems to us that it enters the territory of ukraine. it must reach to people, but you feel the insufficiency of this documentary help. i understand that if all these 100%. or 80% went to the military regional administrations, then they have channels through which they can, in fact, through social workers and so on, convey this to the last grandmother or mother with children. opinion, if it went through, for example, regional administrations, it would be more efficient and faster to reach those who feel the need for it for of military administrations, most of it gets through the railway, that is, in fact, by trains , 2 3 4 5 10 wagons are sent at the same tim

meet the administrations now enforcement requires. how would that impact the enforcement of our nation's immigration laws? >> well to be consistent with the immigration enforcement priorities we think that it makes the most sense to use not only our open to alternatives resources, but also the executive offices for immigration review, the courts resources in a much more targeted way. so i mean we are hopeful that once we remove some of these sort of non priority cases it will allow us to get through these individuals that are public safety threats and national security threats that are on a docket much more quickly and hopefully those cases that will will typically take five years or longer to adjudicate will be adjudicated much more quickly. >> thank you, mister director. madam chair, i will yield back and wait for round two, thank you. >> mr. price. >> thank you, madam chair. welcome, mister director. glad to have you with us and appreciate your testimony. i want to address the cooperation between i. c. e. and local law enforcement