We need to spend every dollar critically, but at the end of the day, that is not going to solve our problem with this explosion of Medicaid costs.

I do not think anyone should put any blame. We had 13 years of inattention, but we have an opportunity today to take that first step toward solving this problem.

It is disingenuous of this Administration to say they believe in preexisting conditions, protections in Federal law for preexisting conditions, when they are currently in court arguing that they are unconstitutional.

I want to bring up first something you and I have talked about previously, and that is Veterans Affairs (VA) reimbursement for long-term care for our veterans.

I want to publicly thank Ms. Verma for working with my office and working with me to talk about rural health care delivery.

This is very problematic.

there is an approach avoidance on what you guys do, and it just seems to me that when you have your boot on the neck of a bad actor, you should keep it there.

we have to have paper ballots.

So no one here should pretend that we do not have a problem.

This is a real problem.

If this were a IV-E investigation of a State foster care system, they would fail, and you basically would withdraw Federal money because there would be inadequate protections for kids.

A couple of things, and I do want to get into this idea that the children are safe when they are in your custody because that is certainly not what we are hearing.

This sickens me. It sickens me that these children have been put in this position and in harm's way, and that we in the U.S. Government have responsibility for these children.

You know what would be good is for you to backtrack on your original statement that kids in your custody are safe, that there is no mismanagement within custody, within those facilities of what is happening with these kids.

There have been 125 reports to law enforcement of child sexual assault in detention centers that are run by HHS or at least contracted to run by HHS, does not that concern you, Commander?

That program is failing by all accounts.

I think that we should have some pretty high expectations at $45,000 per child.

I am concerned even beyond what happens with these kids when they are out of your custody, and we cannot seem to agree on whether you have any responsibility for them.