WATCH LIVE: Mayorkas testifies before House on DHS budget amid border turmoil

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Published 2024-04-10
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is set to testify on the president’s fiscal year 2025 budget request before a House Appropriations subcommittee.

The president rolled out in March his sweeping, $7.3 trillion budget request for 2025, with a set of ambitious proposals aimed at raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations.

The sprawling proposal calls for more support for a wide array of agencies and services key to Democratic priorities, including increases to the maximum Pell Grant award and the housing voucher program, improved immigration courts, and Democratic wish list items such as a proposal for a new program guaranteeing affordable child care for families with annual incomes below $200,000.

The event is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. EDT.

Watch the live video above.

All Comments (21)
  • @donoimdono2702
    630,000???? Nope. Website literally says 142,000. Can you jail him for lying to congress? Others have been.
  • @bigjimbob3737
    He needs more money to offer fringe benefits, and other incentives to illegal immigrants and not provide border security. He could at least just be honest about his budget
  • 19:48 Ms Underwood, allow me to explain basic American geography to you: Texas shares a land-border with Mexico, Illinois does not; Texas' need for assistance is greater than Illinois' need for assistance against unlawful border crossings from Mexico... You certainly speak (or can read from paper) eloquently enough, but your assertions are below the competence of a grade-schooIers grasp of geography. Your presence is an insult to those you represent 😞😞
  • 19:31 ''ChicagoLand''... 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Is that some kind of amusement park with such wholesome (African)American pursuits such as drive-bys, drug dealing, street prostitution and general thuggery?
  • @basecitizen
    Why can't all you "news" channels start filming these hearings from THE BEGINNING??? FFS!
  • Pay him for everything he’s done !!! He deserves 0 , ZERO plus jail time for allowing the invasion , of course ge was just following orders .
  • @ericlove5767
    Senate Democrats need to hold him accountable because the next President will have trouble with this lawless administration with about 9millon unchecked people plus unknown got aways
  • @dbaus2076
    Ms.Underwood Chicago has sanctuary city status. Interesting how you give praise and ask for more from the person that caused this entire problem with the help of the resident.
  • Mayorkas has been asked the same questions several times and frequently responds, " I don't have that information, but I will get it. Does he ever get this information from anyone he has said this to? If he gets the same questions, wouldn't it make sense for Mayorkas to get the answers the next time he is asked? Instead, he always obfuscates.
  • Seeing as our State Represenatives don't care about the bills sitting in Congress and Congress alomg with Social Security treats disabled people like myself with no dignity, the cost of living and suffering under Caps put on disabled and keeping us below the poverty line. Many like myself are looking to go to Canada for Medical assistance in dying and ending our suffering and misery we are put through under the U.S Government, their Social Security SSI and SSDI Caps, the inequality, and inhumane financial burdens and risking everything to just get off disability or married. Now like many Medical Assistance in dieing seems like a better alternative then living and I thank our U.S Congress, State Represenatives and Government for giving disabled people no way out, and it doesn't matter if we are self-employed and or part time working the cost of living out weighs the assistance by government and their caps set against actual disabled people is why many now looking to go to Canada for assistance medically in dying thanks to this corrupt government that puts a price on life.
  • @user-kt6vo8zb3n
    This is one way marokes don't do his. job. An he dont know where the 63 billon went. An dont answer the question s .what did he spend the taxpayers dollars on . He is not doing his job.close the border
  • We aren't all available for your under plans, 'Mayorkas'. Dontcha think adults have had their own lifestyle plans before you decided to make some that will influence them into your offices or your specific bus on that 1 day? You're all under appreciating your immediate comminity. Please don't force the world to point fingers along your path. Thanks