Concerning to me too is a proposed $10 million for new discretionary group program for funding harm reduction grants.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

This is not complicated, the University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children.

I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

I was pleased to see the Department's finalized the rule implementing the Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act we worked on for so long.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.

We have got to answer. Do you want to know why the rural America, and urban and rural America is getting further and further apart, is because rural America has been being left behind and getting screwed.

They want to save lives. They don't want anyone to go through what they have gone through.

I mean, how do you justify a 65 percent increase in this when it was just increased, I guess, what, 4 years ago under the Trump administration?

I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets.

We have lost more Americans to drug overdoses since 1999 than the number of American lives lost in wars or conflicts since the Civil War, and it is absolutely heartbreaking.

We simply cannot afford to add another $750 billion to the national debt.

I hope to, again, work in a bipartisan way to fund our joint priorities, such as finding cures and treatments for cancer.

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Secretary, for being here.

I am hopeful that we will, once again, be able to come together and produce a bipartisan 2025 bill.