"I mean stunningly your colleague to your left just defended these left wing causes and talked about their funneling."
"I think when he like, many other union members, be appalled to hear the answer of your colleague on the panel that defending these left-wing causes?"
"Mr. Secretary, in April 2021, your Department proposed a rule incentivizing public schools to incorporate critical race theory in U.S. history and civics classes."
"Mr. Kendi also in his book he stated that capitalism is essentially racist, so at one point you wanted to teach our kids Ibram X. Kendi's findings."
"This administration would take away school lunches from kids who need that lunch, maybe the only warm meal that they might ever get because of the radical agenda of this administration."
"The 1619 project teaches that Abraham Lincoln is a white supremacist. Is Abraham Lincoln a white supremacist?"
"You took it out. Did you take it out because you decided ultimately that what they are teaching is inappropriate to teach our kids?"
"I was just hoping you would tell us you backtracked on it because ultimately you came to the conclusion that it is inappropriate to teach our kids critical race theory."
"This is just the first $9 billion — if we can't cut $9 billion, how are we going to cut $150 billion?"
"Now Congress has to do the easy part and claw that back and make those cuts permanent."
"Can you talk about how they--how DEI programs foster hatred toward people of faith?"