"there has to be a consequence to the action, right?"
"It is unacceptable, and, quite frankly, it is embarrassing."
"As China continues to spend billions on building up its military, why are we requesting a cut in force strength and munition procurements?"
"Yet President Biden's budget calls for a 41 percent increase in funding, which is wonderful. However, the charter school program is flat."
"But my question is why so flat? Why the budget flat? Why are we targeting and so hostile to those charter school programs?"
"But the issue is charter schools provide higher ratios of diversities for both students and teachers, yet we're discriminating against the charter schools."
"I think we all agree is China seems to be our most challenging adversary or national threat."
"But it's coming at a cost to our non-crisis at the border, so if we don't have a crisis at the border why would we need to divert two billion dollars to take care of that non-crisis?"
"I agree as we sit here today, I think we have a crisis on the border."
"I don't know why it's a struggle to answer the question about a crisis at the border."
"Can you see my confusion is if we don't have a crisis at the border why are you diverting funds?"