A Democratic senator criticized Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ lack of responsiveness to subcommittee requests, as the crisis at the southern border intensifies.
First-term Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., questioned Mayorkas on DHS’s sluggish response time to Permanent Select Subcommittee on Investigations requests during a Tuesday Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on “Threats to the U.S.”
Ossoff asked the secretary about his department’s unresponsiveness to “a number of requests” sent by the Senate committee in July and why the committee still has yet to see “timely production of relevant documents and records.”
“I also want to state here publicly for the record, while we’ve got you, that, regardless of the administration’s party, the Senate has an obligation to conduct vigorous oversight, to be assertive in using our authorities and prerogatives to secure the information necessary to oversee the executive branch’s past and current activities,” Ossoff said during the hearing.
