John Yarmuth: “We need to be shooting where the target is going to be, not where it is now.”

I think that the American Rescue Plan did a lot to push against the spike in hardship that we would have seen that would have disproportionately fallen on communities of color that have for centuries faced systemic racism.

The fact is that the Clinton-Gingrich budgets worked, they reduced the inflation rate, they reduced the tax rate, they created jobs.

If every life were truly sacred in this country, we wouldn't be having a hearing about programs to keep mothers and their children healthy, fed, and cared for, we would be fully funding them.

So, we need to invest in our kids because when we invest in our kids, when kids have more economic stability, when they go to good quality schools, when they have adequate nutrition, when those things happen, kids thrive and they can…