Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) lamented that President Joe Biden has misplaced federal resources “worried about climate change” instead of focusing on terroristic threats facing the United States.

In the final days of Biden’s term, the U.S. has experienced two terrorist attacks. One in New Orleans, where federal authorities said Shamsud-Din Jabbar subverted a police barricade during the New Year’s Day celebration, drove through the crowds, and then shot several more people, killing fifteen people. In another case, Matthew Livelsberger parked a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the glass doors to the Las Vegas Trump Hotel and, 15 seconds later, detonated the vehicle. On Monday, Biden announced a last-minute ban for new drilling on certain coastlines in the U.S., including along parts of the Gulf of Mexico. 

“ISIS is coming back. Al-Qaeda is coming back. You have these prison camps for tens of thousands of ISIS fighters and families in eastern Syria, and nothing’s been done about them. They’re ticking time bombs,” Waltz said on Fox News’s Hannity on Monday. “These resources are finite, and if you have them worried about climate change, then you don’t have them worried about the real threats to America.”

According to Waltz, the solution is to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to various national security positions as soon as possible. In the Senate, lawmakers will be in session for ten consecutive weeks from Monday to Friday to nominate appointees as fast as possible.

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“This national security team has to be in place because the threats aren’t taking a pause while the Senate kind of thinks about it,” Waltz said. “We need them now and that is because we need to get in and see if the appropriate resources are being directed, as you just mentioned, at the real threats. Not at social justice, not at parents at school boards, but ISIS is back, al Qaeda is back, our border is wide open.”

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is set to be appointed to replace Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas once Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Mayorkas wished her success and a “smooth transition.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is set to be nominated as Trump’s secretary of state, and Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth is slated to be his defense secretary.