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When I sat here last year, I walked through how we were already in a heightened threat environment.

Since then, we've seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole other level

after October 7th.

We continue to see the cartels push fentanyl and other dangerous drugs

into every corner of the country claiming countless American lives.

We've seen a spate of ransomware and other cyberattacks

impacting parts of our critical infrastructure and businesses, both large and small.

Violent crime, violent crime, which reached alarming levels coming out of the pandemic,

remains far too high and is impacting far too many communities.

China continues its relentless effort to steal our intellectual property

and most valuable information.

And that is just scratching the surface.

As I look back over my career in law enforcement,

I would be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to our public safety

and national security.

So elevated, all at once.

But that is the case as I sit here today.

Funding more than the overall Department of Justice is.

In fact, if the total spending for the DOJ...

This is a time when we need your support the most.

We need all the tools, all the people, and all the resources required

to tackle these threats and to keep Americans safe.

So to take each of those in turn, the tools, the people, and the resources.

First, an absolutely indispensable tool that Congress can give us

in our fight against foreign adversaries

is the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

It is critical in securing our nation,

and we are in crunch time with our 702 authority set to expire next week.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Director Wray,

but now, increasingly concerning

is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland

akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia concert hall

just a couple weeks ago.

We also need funding

to counter the threat from the People's Republic of China,

a government sparing no expense in its quest

to hack, lie, cheat, and steal its way to the top

as a global superpower,

and to undermine our democracy and our economic success.

The performance of some within your agency acting

and we have seen a substantial jump in threats

towards FBI personnel and facilities from fiscal year 22 to fiscal year 23.

In fact, we created a dedicated unit to try to deal with those issues.

Legislative reform proposals that are swirling around up in Congress right now.

I'll be honest with you,

and I'm not going to lie to you, but I'm not going to lie to you.

I'm not going to lie to you, but I'm not going to lie to you.

And this pains me to say this, but I don't trust you.

I don't think that this is necessarily a funding problem

that we have for your agency as much as a leadership problem.

Okay.

I can't.