Thank you all for being here. Just had a good meeting with President Zolensky. I reiterated to him that we stand with him and against Putin's brutal invasion.

The American people stand for freedom and they're on the right side of this fight. I have asked the White House

since the day that I was handed the gavel as speaker for clarity. We need a clear

articulation of the strategy to allow Ukraine to win.

And thus far, their responses have been insufficient.

They have not provided us the clarity and the detail

that we have requested over and over since literally 24 hours after I was handed the gavel as Speaker of the House.

And so what the Biden administration seems to be asking for is billions of additional dollars

with no appropriate oversight, no clear strategy to win,

and none of the answers that I think the American people are owed.

I have also made very clear from day one that our first condition on any national security

supplemental spending package is about our own national security first.

The border is an absolute catastrophe and this is because of the policies of this White House and this

administration.

We had 12,000 illegal crossings on one day last week alone on Wednesday.

We have almost now 280 known terrorists that have been

apprehended at the border. None of this counts the gotaways. If you add the

numbers up, it's almost 7 million people who have been encountered at the border just

since President Biden took office and at least two million gotaways.

This is twice the population of my state of Louisiana.

Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 49 in this country.

Fentanyl poisoning because it's allowed over the border.

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