John Fleming: “Why set about a plan that is impossible to execute when even at the end of the plan, you are no better off?”

There is no question about it, EDA does fantastic work, and I will be 110 percent committed to its success, efficacy, and efficiency while I am leading it and while it is funded.

Congresswoman, budgets are about priorities, and this administration has a different set of priorities than the last one.

Oh, absolutely, no question. But then you always have to apply that to over time, some places get hit three or four times over a decade.

As you know, unemployability levels are at historic lows today, not least of which is because of the deregulation and the reduction in taxes that have so much stimulated the economy.