Ashley Moody: This Biden-Era Action Was 'The Most Destructive Cover-Up In Our Nation's History'

I want to speak for everyone in this room and everyone in this country that you are a welcome addition as the head of DHS. In fact, you heard time and time again from everybody that's been questioning you. They sought repeatedly documents from that agency. I litigated as Florida's Attorney General against DHS and Secretary Mayorkas and sought documents as part of that. I hate that it took litigation to uncover what I believe was the most destructive cover up in our nation's history. I uncovered plans by DHS when the border was overrun to just step back and let everybody come in and facilitate that. Plans to push quotas into the interior daily. Plans to build illegal programs to bring more and more people directly here from out of our country here. Plans to illegally release people into the U.S. that had been brought here for prosecution solely for prosecution for drug crimes from outside our country and when they finished their decades-long prison sentence as drug traffickers instead of historically as they would have been deported, they put them back into the community in which they were prosecuted and released them. The premeditated calculation that went into destroying our borders and pushing barely vetted oftentimes dangerous people into this nation I believe was something that we will look back on in a nation and say that was the moment as a country we stopped taking seriously protecting the sovereignty of our nation, our security, and making sure first and foremost we were keeping an eye on the plans of our enemies and the weaknesses that we had as a country. I cannot thank you enough for stepping up and coming back to work, coming to D.C., having been home in your state, coming back to the swamp to try and reverse the damage that was done. In fact, we've been talking a lot about cover ups and things that were kept from the American people in the last administration. Your predecessor sat here and testified to Congress time and time again while I was busy litigating as an AG, uncovering the real plans. The border is secure. Time and time again he lied. And in terms of someone that needs to be held accountable for perjuring themselves, it's not just about not providing information. It's about lying to the American people as he systematically made our country weaker and put their lives and their families in danger. I think that is abhorrent. I cannot believe a person was allowed to be trusted with the responsibility he was given. And I am so glad that you're willing to be here and take questions and provide documents about that. The Coast Guard is one of the things I think you said to testimony. It's been neglected for years. Our service is outmanned and equipped by Russia, China, and the cartels. We need cutters. I can tell you in Florida under the last administration, we kept seeing people, many times criminals, coming to our shores. We are a maritime border, obviously. We had to surge resources. Thankfully, President Trump came in on day one and asked that we do that so we were able to surge resources there. But I just wanted to give you some sort of example. In the last year, we saw 13,500 illegal aliens stopped from entering Florida. About almost 700 vessels that we kept from coming onto shore. So important that we get the Coast Guard cutters, get those ships built, ramp up assets. Thank you for that commitment. I am concerned that we might, and trying to do that so quickly, much needed, that we give United States contracts. Do I have your word you will look at how we can readily increase our Coast Guard assets like our Coast Guard cutters, but using American businesses? Absolutely. That's one of the things that Forest Design 2028 focuses on, is making sure that we're building those kind of partnerships to meet the needs that the Coast Guard has. And I'd say our greatest asset is our people. I'm so thrilled with the fact that Coast Guard recruitment is at 108% of its recruitment goal just because of the excitement to serve in a fleet that gets to do its mission again. And recognizes that it's been neglected for too long, but there's a focus and a recognition of the important work that they do. And certainly Florida has participated a lot with partnering with not only in Texas at our southern border, we've sent assets there, but we are ramping up our own assets to complement what was not provided to us in the last administration. Thank you for your dedication to making sure that's provided to us so we can secure our own maritime border. Appreciate that. Absolutely. Thank you. Perfect. Five minutes. Thank you. Senator Kim. Thank you, Chairman. Madam Secretary. A press release came out.