The President's budget proposes to reduce funding for NIH by $5,200,000,000, 13 percent below the 2019 level.

I can't possibly understand how you would want to eliminate preschool development grants.

Last year, much to my surprise, you proposed the elimination of these after-school programs.

I believe separating children from their parents is government-sponsored child abuse, and HHS is complicit.

20 percent, as I said, is maybe a wish, but it isn't going to happen.

This is not our job.

I think that the notion that where we have to go is entitlement reform, misses the big picture.

That is not the road that we need to go down. That is not what this Agency is about.

the short-term plans, also known as junk plans, that the President Fiscal Year 2020 budget touts does not include maternal care as a benefit.

It is a pat on the back with no deterrence impacts on the employer or others who are violating the law.

It is the obligation of this subcommittee to ensure that the middle class, working families, and low-income families are not harmed by reckless cuts.

the Department proposed to revise and repeal protections for 16- and 17-year-old workers.

how can you say the budget addresses the opioid epidemic when it fails to support preventive health measures that will counteract consequences of using opioids?

Are you increasing permanent bed capacity so that you can move away from unlicensed and expensive influx shelters?

You are extending the program without any knowledge of its effectiveness.

In a budget that, again, has been, in my view, full of cruel cuts to education programs, it baffles me that you found room for a $60 million increase to the Charter School Program, or CSP, especially when you consider recent reports of…

You can't talk about voting for life and pick and choose those issues that you believe are going to promote life.

We do have the obligation to look at employment and training, and look at the best way to provide them with the potential for their success.

And I would just say, no, some of them, if you take a look at the data and the information, we are looking at the transference to private entities, private corporate boards.

I have been a supporter of these for a long time and they are really life-saving for many of these kids in the communities.

I am very proud that the Congress increased NIH funding by $9,000,000,000, over 30 percent, over the past four years.

It appears, Mr. Secretary, that there is no empirical evidence that the existing policy hurt employment.

They thought they were coming in to legitimate jobs and they ended up in massage parlors, and they were exploited, put into prostitution.

I see the impact on the parents and on their kids, and this is such an invaluable program.

Why, on your watch as the Secretary of Education, do you want to be complicit in shutting off public education opportunities?