I will work to craft a budget that truly puts Americans first.
As a child, I believed in the Tooth Fairy, but I'm a little bit older now.
You have a 17 percent cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
You eliminate funding for teen pregnancy prevention.
And if these cuts weren't bad enough, you also assume savings from the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and deep cuts to the Medicaid progr...
Twenty-three million Americans would lose coverage, and your administration celebrated a bill that will do that.
The best way to create a 'foundation of greatness' is to support programs that lift people up.
You target women's health, and Senator Murray has talked about this, by discriminating against providers that serve low-income women.
You leave people in the cold by eliminating the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, LIHEAP.
Now, the healthcare bill was voted on in the House, but most House Members never read it.
Improving access is essential.
I compliment you, Secretary Price, for traveling around the country to look at the concerns of those who are facing opioid addiction.
The massive cuts to the Medicaid program, which your administration endorsed in the House-passed bill, and assumed in your budget, would hav...
Are you saying that in, for example, a program in Vermont where 68 percent of medication-assisted treatment is funded through Medicaid, even...
I don't support your enormous cuts you've made in Trumpcare in the House bill.
It's obvious the purview of the Department of Health and Human Services is very, very wide; it touches every American.
You reduce discretionary spending by nearly $8 billion, a 12 percent cut.
I'm talking about a program that seems to be working now. You're talking about taking the money away from this program that's working and sa...
