It has become overwhelmingly evident that hospitals that serve a disproportionate share of uninsured patients and Medicaid patients needed much more support.

Understand and use your voices. Use every ounce of your being in your advocacy to thwart this disastrous effort.

There are some in the Republican House majority that are demanding massive funding cuts in the fiscal year 2024 appropriations.

I want to thank you, and we were very happy to make the increase in the museum services in the last budget.

We can't afford to lose that time because you never get it back.

Thank you for dedicating your career to the work of saving lives by increasing access to high-quality healthcare.

Speaker McCarthy and the Republican House majority are demanding massive government funding cuts in fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills.

I think what we found in the pandemic was that our public health infrastructure collapsed. It collapsed.

for-profit OPMs are the new predators in higher education.

American families need our help. This budget acknowledges that reality.

To cut those back would be to regress, to backslide to an area of not being prepared again for a pandemic.

I am deeply concerned that I am over some of my House Republican colleagues' calls for massive spending cuts.

Okay. Let me just also, because the House Republican bill would rescind all unobligated COVID funds, including all the unobligated funds of the Provider Relief Fund.

We created and we sustained better-paying American jobs by strengthening job training, apprenticeship programs, worker protection.

If nearly 75 percent of House Republicans had voted for Representative Massie's amendment to H.R. 5, if they succeed in their goal that authority of the Department of Education, Secretary of Education, operator, administrator, any office…

The cuts would be detrimental to the American people, to our economy, and essential government functions that our constituents rely on.

We need to take a very, very hard look at the investments that we have made and the benefits of those investments.

Cuts to the Department of Education would remove more than 100,000 teachers and service providers from classrooms serving low-income students and students with disabilities funded through Title I and IDEA grants.

I think the mindset that we have to have should include the importance of mental health and well-being.

This bill would require them to cut health programs by at least 22 percent, possibly closer to 30 percent or more.

It was a crisis before the pandemic, and it certainly was exacerbated by that. So it is front and center.

I think we should be really building on where we have gone in the last couple of years.

With regard to Child Care and Development Block Grant, it was $1,800,000,000. Head Start funding, $960,000,000.

I thank the chair for holding this hearing, this critical hearing, and I am pleased to welcome our witnesses.

What we did in the 2022 appropriations bill was an overall increase in terms of NCI for $408,000,000.