Rosa DeLauro

You cannot do more with less. You can only do less with less.

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

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

I think that we need to clearly make the message that nicotine is addictive.

This Budget, in my view, is cruel. I think it is reckless.

It is where you place your resources, what are your values, what are your priorities.

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

It hurts middle-class families. It hurts working families. It hurts low-income families.

We want Federal law to pre-empt it.

I need an answer to the question, why did the Department do this and what happened to the money?

I do know a lot about it.

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

I wonder if you have seen these programs and see how critical they are to many of our communities.

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.

Congress, under a Republican majority, not only rejected the Administration's cuts last year but increased after-school investments by $10 million.

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

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.

Madam Secretary, let me just say that you are taking public dollars to open charter schools and you are taking money away from the public schools, which is where 90 percent of our children are.

That is irresponsible in terms of your job with regard to oversight, and as it has to do with Federal taxpayers' dollars.

This is not our job.

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…

With this budget request I am receiving President Trump's message loud and clear--fund the wall with money from our children's schools.

You propose an increase of $105 million for school safety national activities with the hopes of implementing safety practices that are proven to make schools less safe.

DOD opposes this legislation because the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has been an important recruitment and retention tool.

The Administration only opposes spending when it aids the vulnerable, when it promotes the common good.