John Yarmuth

How can you preserve pre-existing conditions in the private insurance market without--well, I just ask you, how can you do it differently than the Affordable Care Act attempted to do it?

the importance of the Department of Health and Human Services cannot be overstated.

Our President is clearly not up to the task.

the contrast between those needs and the Trump Administration's budget could not be more stark.

I want to thank you for this opportunity for Members to bring our legislative priorities before the Budget Committee today.

At the same time, and in the face of a President who has flouted our budget laws, and repeatedly trampled the lines of executive budgetary power, this Committee will fight to enforce and strengthen Congress's power of the purse.

The 35-day government shutdown last year put a tragic spotlight on the clear need for advanced appropriations for the Bureaus of Indian Affairs, Indian Education, and for Indian Health Service.

Providing federal funds for Indian programs a full year in advance will ensure that the federal government can better meet its commitment to uphold trust and treaty responsibilities throughout Indian country.

The federal government has a legal and moral responsibility to ensure funding for our trust and treaty responsibilities, and that is not interrupted by delays in appropriations.

We should nation-build at home.

But if you have programs--so, I mean, the point is that we are trying to accept--you are asking us to accept the fact that you are going to save money with all these alternative approaches.

So we--a lot of disagreements here on what are cuts or not, and what are not cuts.

The President was very clear. He is very clear every time he speaks at a rally that he wants to protect preexisting conditions.

This President is asking working Americans to sacrifice their safety, their health, their economic security, their futures to cover the cost of Republicans' tax scam that was never going to pay for itself.

It is my hope that today's hearing will provide an open and honest examination of the priorities set forth by the Trump Administration.

I promise that this Committee will continue its vigilance, and not allow the President to unilaterally substitute this budget for the bipartisan budget already in place, and I keep my promises.

We need to see the values.

The budget is a statement of your values.

Because tax cuts don't pay for themselves, you have a Medicare cut of $756 billion over 10 years.

Passing a budget resolution this particular year would change absolutely nothing.

My colleagues on the other side and this Administration will lecture us on the academic principles of fiscal responsibility and austerity by limiting deficit spending, unless it means cutting tax cuts for the rich.

Your infrastructure program is weak and pathetic.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office released its updated budget and economic outlook for the next decade. This report once again confirms that, despite the economic expansion he inherited, the…

We have a plan on Social Security with 208 Democratic sponsors that would deal with Social Security and make it stable as far as the eye could see.

It is all the Houses fault. No, before you can spend, you have to pass the House and the Senate and be signed by the President.