Hi. This is ██ Congressman ████████████. I'm calling to invite you to join my telephone town hall event taking place in just a few moments. Please just stay on the line and you will be automatically connected. If you have any questions after the event or if I can assist you in any way, please call my office at ████████████. To be added to our Do Not Call list, please press 9 now. Please hold while we connect you to your Access Live event. This Access Live event is currently in progress. Please note, this call may be monitored, recorded or rebroadcast. If you would like to ask a question during today's event, press Star three on your telephone keypad at any time. Chosen to take on some very, very bad actors. Here's what we know about ████. They have been killing and terrorizing Americans for ██ years. And this has been a real problem over the course of time. It hasn't reached Benchmark Press, perhaps because it doesn't happen a huge numbers all at once. But this is a big problem where terrorism has been targeting Americans. Also, they are, we know for a fact, the primary funder of major terrorist organizations, Hezbollah and Hamas, for example. And we also know, and we've actually intercepted situations where they have put out bounties and attempted to go after the President of the █████████████. So this is a very bad actor. The president has chosen to take them on. And the other thing that we do know about Iran is if they have a weapon, then they will use it. They have used ███% of the types of weapons that they've ever had access to. So that's his reasoning on this. I think we need to support our men and women that are engaged with this, and let's get out as quickly as we can. That's the intent, and I think that's going to happen. Get in, get out and neutralize the threat. So that's what's going on with ████. Different subject, but another challenge that we're struggling with. The shutdown. They're the partial government shutdown right now. So the Republican majority had passed ██ appropriation bills this last year, and that hasn't happened for many, many years. But it did. That's a good thing. However, there was a struggle with a DHS funding. The Democrat side did get enough votes to stop the funding for the DHS department, and that's primarily because they are not happy with ICE Immigration Enforcement Channel. ICE is charged with removing criminals who are in the country who came in illegally. And I'm not talking about just being here illegal. I'm talking about committing crimes after being here illegally. And that's their charge. In my view, and I think most people's view, they need to go. That's the charge. And it's ironic that the DHS budget got stopped because ICE has already been funded. They're the target in all this, but they've been funded through other channels. But the collateral damage, I guess, is primarily TSA in the airport, fema, your federal emergency channels. And it is the Democrat side currently that is not supporting that. The other side, Republicans, we're going to hold firm on that. And so we'll have to get this solved, but there's going to have to be some movement. On the other side. The last thing I'll mention before jumping into questions is a Save America Act. You may have heard about that. That's getting a lot of exposure right now. The goal of the Save America act is to have proof of citizenship at the registration point and identification of the polls. That is immensely popular with both Republican and Democrat all across the country. And why are we doing that? Because it's a constitutional guideline. But it needs to be enforced. You see, we've got somewhere between ██ and ██ million new people in the country that came in four over the last five years. the fear of course is