Hi, I'm Texas Senator ███████████. This evening I'm hosting a live toll-free telephone town hall to discuss the issues that matter most to you. If you'd like to participate please stay on the line. And you'll be connected to our call. If you aren't able to join in but you'd like to get in touch with me please feel free to call my office at █████████████. Or visit my website █████████████████ we'll begin shortly. This access live event is currently in progress. Please note that this call may be monitored, recorded or rebroadcast. Management agency or FEMA homeland security investigations that combats child exploitation. And many other critical agencies. Unfortunately our TSA agents have been heroically working without pay during one of the busiest travel seasons of the year. We've just been through spring break and it is south by southwest in ██████. We've got damaging weather events and we've had terrorists threats and attacks like the one we saw in ██████ just a few weeks ago. Where an individual killed three people and injured ██ more down on ██████████. He was wearing a sweatshirt said property of Allah. And wearing a t-shirt with the Iranian flag underneath defunding the Department of Homeland Security makes it harder for the homeland security investigations to work with the FBI in order to prevent those kinds of attacks. I've now voted six times in the past five weeks to reopen and fund the Department of Homeland Security and even President █████ who agreed to negotiated outcome just. The, I guess it was last night or maybe it was the night before last I lose track of the days basically giving the Democrats what they asked for. With reservations. And they've now turned that down. I would want to say that one of the best things that we've done is to anticipate this defund. ICE and we prefunded ICE in the one big beautiful bill, the Working Family Tax Cuts bill. And so the irony of all this is they are punishing TSA because they're mad at ice, but yet ice is already funded for the next several years. As a result of the pre funding that we did in the one big beautiful bill otherwise known as the Working Family Tax Cuts. I've heard a lot of you about it from a lot of you about the Save America Act. In a normal environment this would be a common sense piece of legislation that would not be controversial because all it does is require proof of a citizenship in order to register to vote. And proof of a photo with a photo ID when you cast your ballot. We know during four years of the █████ administration literally there were millions of people flooding into the country unvetted. And now Democrats are the ones that say we can't even check to make sure that people who actually cast a ballot or register to vote our American citizens. Most of the public opinion polling I've seen shows ██ to ██% of people including most Democrats believe that is a common sense requirement. And as you know photo IDs required for so many basic things ranging from getting on a plane to entering a federal building to buying a beer or the list goes on and on. I've supported the Save America Act since day one and I support the talking filibuster that's been advocated for by my colleagues Senator ████████. So I'm working with the president and Senator ███ and other