Bill Hagerty

Those days are over.

If you think about it from Russia's perspective, they should look at this with great concern.

President Trump means what he says, and he delivers on what he says.

Certainly, we've had that concern from the very outset of the Biden administration going back to 2021.

When Joe Biden collapsed the border, this is exactly what we were concerned about, the potential of it happening.

I'd say this, my Democrat colleagues who are pushing for war powers resolution should also be pushing to reopen the Department of Homeland Security.

They have shut it down.

Without a single Republican vote, it's time to make certain that we have the greatest capability that we can here in the homeland.

to protect ourselves.

And it's certainly the time to stop playing politics and keeping DHS shut down just so they can wave a political flag.

Well, it takes our Coast Guard in a position where, look, these men and women that are serving are continuing to serve.

They're patriots.

They step up and do the job.

But the fact that they aren't getting paid

Again, just makes their lives much harder.

And why the Democrats want to exercise their political judgment in a way that hurts and punishes these people when they have nothing to do with the Democrats' frustration that, frankly, they don't have any message except resist Trump and resist anything at all costs.

And what they're doing is putting our nation in harm's way in the process.

that resolve matters, that the U.S.

has the most impeccable capability of any military in the world.

Think about the intelligence that was deployed here.