U.S. State Attorneys General

This budget underscores the Administration's commitment to prepare the Nation for the next public health crisis.

We must ensure that the Department has the resources to achieve its mission and build a healthier America.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on how health inequities and inefficient Federal funding can leave communities vulnerable to crises.

It is easier to build a strong child, than to prepare a broken man.

The Affordable Care Act was all about providing consumers with real coverage and at an affordable price.

We intend to enforce the Affordable Care Act.

As you know more than 2 billion dollars that the President calls for in his budget will try to address a number of those concerns.

There is no law that deals specifically with the term partial birth abortion.

President Biden has made a commitment to reduce the prices of prescription drugs.

Until you all deal with the crisis, the critical aspects of immigration the way that they should be dealt with, this broken immigration system is going to continue creating these challenges.

Those seniors who have preventive healthcare services and help paying for their prescription medication, will find they're out of luck if the Affordable Care Act goes away.

All those kids were under the age of 26 who have health coverage through their parents policy will all of a sudden find that if you're 18 to 26 you're out of luck.

If they somehow for some reason decide that it is not constitutional, well then you all have some really important work to do.

What the Biden administration has done is handled this in a lawful manner.

I think it's important to have the top two leaders of our Nation engaged, and they are both engaged with their team.

I can assure you again. Anyone who works for the Department of Health and Human Services ... goes through all the appropriate and legally required checks.

I want to guarantee you that under my watch, ... every child who is discharged to a custodian ... has had that background check done.

I commit to work with you.

We'd like to do our part on gun violence prevention. The research that we can do because this is a health crisis, it's not just a gun violence crisis, it's a health crisis.

If you help us get that American Families Plan that the President has proposed through, we'll have more resources as well.

We hope we can do is make sure that we're making investments through this budget, not just spending dollars because they have to be wise allocations.

I think everyone agrees that the price of insulin is just outrageous the way it's gone up, and we have to do something.

I look forward to working with you to take a look at some of these issues.

Mr. Secretary, you're presenting me something that I've never seen, and I can certainly take a look at that.