Good Evening,

The attempted assassination of President Donald Trump was the largest security failure since 1981 when Ronald Reagan was almost killed. To be clear: The agents who protected President Trump were brave and honorable. This was a catastrophic failure from the leadership of the Secret Service, and I’m not going to rest until we get answers.

“We now know that one minute and 57 seconds before the first shot was fired bystanders spotted the shooter on the roof with a rifle. We've all seen the videos on X, pointing out he has a gun. He's on the roof, pointing it out to local law enforcement. That was a minute and 57 seconds before the first shot. If local law enforcement was able to speak to Secret Service, they would have pulled President Trump from the podium. He never would have been shot and nobody else would have been killed.”

In a joint committee hearing with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee, I was very direct in my questioning of Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe over the utter breakdown to protect the President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Although the Acting Director was more forthcoming than his incompetent political hack predecessor Kimberly Cheatle, he still left many questions unanswered.

“The bravery of the agents is quite different from the decisions of Secret Service leadership. Secret Service leadership committed catastrophic security failures. … It’s incumbent upon this committee to determine why those security failures happened. Just after the shooting, Secret Service put out an official statement from your spokesperson that says, ‘There's an untrue assertion that a member of the former president's team requested additional security resources, that those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false. In fact, we added protective resources and technology and capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo.’ Was this tweet accurate?”

We are living in an overtly political time in our nation’s history, and the Biden-Harris administration has been been at the center of it all.

“This is the same campaign that is suddenly claiming that [Kamala] was not the border czar. Never mind that she was in charge of our open borders. She was in charge of stopping the invasion on the southern border, except, you know what she viewed her job as increasing the invasion on the southern border because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want these 11 and a half million people to come into this country. All they're doing now is engaging in campaign misdirection. Her radical record she can't run away from.”

This week, I also joined Sean Hannity to discuss the crisis plaguing our southern border, and the Biden-Harris administration’s role in intentionally exacerbating that crisis, directly costing American lives.

“Listen, we had 11 and a half million illegal immigrants enter under Joe Biden Kamala Harris. Kamala wants that 11 and a half million to be 20 million, to be 30 million, to be 40 million, because she looks at them as future Democrat voters, and it is the most cynical transaction. They want votes, and they want power. And if children, if our children have to be at risk, if our families have to be in jeopardy, they're willing to make that trade off.”

I’ve also been fighting to get my Justice for Jocelyn Act to the floor for a vote so that no parent or family is forced to endure the same tragic loss that Alexis Nungaray and her father, Kelvin, have been subjected to since their daughter and granddaughter Jocelyn Nungaray was murdered. Alexis and Kelvin joined me along with Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, Rep. Troy Nehls, Mattress Mack, and Andy Kahan, Crime Stopper’s Director of Victim Services and Advocacy, for a press conference on the importance of this legislation to crack down on the Department of Homeland Security’s “Alternative to Detention” program.

“This is a straightforward, commonsense step. It’s something that makes sense. Those of us up here are wearing bracelets that read, ‘Justice for Jocelyn.’ I pray that these bracelets touch more than your wrists—that they touch your heart. Because not only are we grieving for Jocelyn, but we should be grieving for the little girl or little boy who is going to be killed tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Because as long as the federal government keeps doing what it’s doing—everyday releasing illegal immigrants who are preying on and murdering innocent people—we’re going to see more little girls, more little boys, more women, more men subjected to hell. It’s not right, and as a community we can stand up and say enough is enough.”

I was honored to join my friends and colleagues, Sens. Blackburn, Blumenthal, Schumer, and Rep. Castor to celebrate the overwhelming Senate passage of the Kids Online Safety Act.

“All of us work together, and this is a real bipartisan victory. This is legislation that is much needed, and there was an enormous amount of work to get these bills ready to go, to make them effective, to make them work, to make them harmonize with each other and to bring the parties together. Look, there are lots of issues that the various members on this call disagree on, and yet we're both here celebrating this victory, and it's a victory for kids.”

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Rest assured, I will always advocate to secure our border and keep the Lone Star State and our great nation safe. God Bless!

Keep Texas Strong,

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