I am sure there are people who are alive today because--and living peacefully today because of the great endeavors that you have made in this committee.

As this Committee is well aware, the Federal Government has trust and treaty obligations to provide vital services to American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.

This news was particularly concerning for us to hear as many members of this Committee, including myself and Senator Cortez Masto, have repeatedly asked you at hearings about whether BIE is meeting student accountability reporting…

We think it is critical that all Federal resources go where they need to be which is at these schools.

progress on closing GAO recommendations and service reports, with a renewed focus on improving quality of care, has not been enough to fix the accreditation issues at the Gallup Indian Medical Center.

I am committed to doing everything I can to address these issues head-on.

Year after year, tribal communities report gaps in Federal programs.

IHS is taking a comprehensive and integrated approach towards creating an oversight capability at headquarters to improve the quality of care and patient safety.

However, including Indian programs on the GAO High Risk list confirms what many in Indian Country have reported to this Committee; we must do better.

I applaud IHS for the strides it has made since the first high risk hearing last May, but despite this progress, since then, two more federally-operated IHS facilities are reportedly at risk of losing their CMS accreditation. I am deeply…

This year's budget request for the Middle East and North Africa, sadly, is no different.

If you want to be a friend of the United States, drive the terrorists out of your mosque.

It is often difficult to know if the request matches the objective, because we are often presented with broader generic policy objectives rather than strategies to achieve those objectives.

I appreciate the subcommittee's commitment to our duty as Members of Congress to examine how the U.S. is allocating its finite resources to confront a range of threats in the Middle East.

We can acknowledge the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and work with our allies to address it, even as we decry Hamas.

We have a President who has made tough decisions and have been strong.

Both of these were policy objective heavy and short on strategy.

Thank you so much, Mr. Zeldin.