Rep. Chip Roy

We need seasoned leadership by somebody who's been there before, who knows how to do it and can do it the right way.

OK, I don't think we should just go around willy nilly, but we need to be able to work with law enforcement and we need to pressure the locals to work with us in order to ensure bad actors are removed.

Well, number one, this is where Congress steps in and has to be able to come together to use the power of the purse, which we have been to your point, which I no doubt you're no doubt are already thinking and about to say has not been effective.

We continue to fund the things that we complain about, like sanctuary cities.

We continue to fund, you know, the law enforcement that is not actually working with us.

I think we ought to not do that.

And I think that the president ought to use every power that he can and that OMB Director Russ Vogt can use every power he can to stop funding those people who are at odds with our way of life.

But we've got to just continue to back the president.

The president has to continue to put the heat on these guys, and we have to win politically.

That's what we have to do.

There's no other choice.

Right now, if we, to your point, and I don't believe the president is backing up or retreating or use the phrase waving the white flag.

And I agree with you that sending Tom Homan on the ground was a big sign of that and what the president's messaging has been.

But we cannot allow them, for example, to shut down Homeland Security funding.

Because they're trying to play this political card after this last weekend.

We've got to refocus on fraud.

And yes, we do need to figure out and go in and arrest and do the things we need to do.

And look, I'm frustrated at my Republican colleagues.

I tried to defund 20% of the budget for the D.C.

circuit courts and D.C.