Tony Cárdenas

if President Trump were to fully revive this committee, do you think that the council could provide more inclusion and transparency for Tribal communities

That relationship, you know, should improve because of this committee hearing today.

I look forward to working with all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to rectify these wrongs.

I personally believe that the efforts of genocide on the first Americans has never ended...

But we need the whole entirety of Congress to do the same.

I have the right and I believe the responsibility to take this opportunity to apologize on behalf of the United States Congress

And United States Congress has power of the purse.

We have a big problem when we have a President who is misusing his access to the loudest megaphones in the land.

the biggest voice on the national stage has been President Trump. And there is no question that he has misled the public

In February, Dr. Messonnier with the CDC warned us that the virus could possibly cause severe disruption to our everyday life. She was right.

the President seems to believe he is above this evidence-based recommendation... and has rejected... politics into public health.

In the midst of a pandemic, this is unacceptable.

you confirmed that a second wave of the virus in the fall could be difficult, and President Trump immediately contradicted you in real-time.

I am concerned, gentlemen, that we have a problem right now, that over 120,000 lives have been lost in the United States due to COVID-19.

What I report today and what we are hearing is shameful. We can and must do better.

I have seen firsthand what COVID-19 has done in our community and the systematic racism that is happening across a lot of different areas including healthcare.

Your focus with legislation on the social determinants of health gets directly at the issue.

Social determinants of health tend to determine about 40 percent of health outcomes, which is more than genetics or access to care.

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic a bright light has recently been shown on the health disparities and inequities that have always existed in the United States.

Are you aware of the fact that the lack of testing in the United States America is affected by many pieces of the puzzle in order for people to get testing, whether it is swabs, whether it is N95-rated equipment for the caregivers to be…

I believe that scientists are best equipped to understand how to manage a public health crisis and I believe scientists should lead.

So my question is, if we are not implementing in this pandemic to the degree or ability that the United States should or could, what has contributed the most to that?

I would like to invite you to call my office, Congressman Tony Cardenas, and I will work with any of my colleagues...

We have heard boasting from the White House about millions of personal protective equipment, PPEs as everybody knows them as, millions have gone out to America. But fact, to date, we should have had billions gone out throughout America…

When an administration or decisionmakers prioritize politics over science, does that tend to increase or decrease the likely results of the loss of life in the middle of a pandemic?