I think we have to take a look at, if I had a funnel, at really the small end of the funnel, can we stop it before it even gets here? Can we choke it off?

I think is great. So. thank you again. We have heard a lot of rhetoric today.

the cover up is always worse than the crime.

That is our job, and that is what we are doing. CMS' own estimates show that Medicaid and CHIP state expenditures would increase by $40 million.

This hearing does not meet those standards because what powerful people are we holding to account here?

We have three co-equal branches of government, and we have to stop changing the definitions, and we have to follow the rules of law.

Today, we are, again, conducting oversight of yet another disastrous policy by the Biden Administration that will only exacerbate the crisis along the Southern border.

I think what it has to do, to answer your question, is incentives. I think people are logical and people do things that they believe is in their best interest, and we incentivize people and we incentivize their behaviors, so that is what…

They are proposing a rule with dubious legal basis to provide taxpayer-funded Federal health benefits to individuals who have entered this country illegally.

If there is any individual that believes in stripping Medicaid from DACA recipients, I would like to know if they are willing to give the $6.6 billion that DACA recipients pay in Federal taxes back to them.

Even President Obama understood this much when his Administration determined in 2012 that DACA recipients should not be eligible for Medicaid.

What I think people are irritated with... is we have three co-equal branches of government to do that.

We have got to stop letting the agencies run with these. We have to follow the law.

This Administration has chosen to reward those who enter the country illegally, with release from custody in many cases.

I am curious on how we are going to pay for this. Last I checked, we have a major deficit in this country, and I have yet to hear any explanation of how we are paying with this.

What I think people are irritated with, and I can speak for myself, what I am irritated with is we have three co-equal branches of government to do that.

In my opinion, you altered the law in direct contradiction to the decision of the Federal court judge which stated that DACA was unlawful.

Instead, they are proposing a rule with dubious legal basis to provide taxpayer-funded Federal health benefits to individuals who have entered this country illegally.

This hearing is not about putting up guardrails, it is about ripping away a safety net.

When you are making it harder for people to be healthy, you are going to have a tough sell that you are in it for the people.

I do not think you know what you are saying because you use the laws that are convenient for you, when if we really truly care about the children, we would care about it when it is convenient, and when it is not convenient, and we would…

We do not know if they are being trafficked, right, because we know human trafficking is a problem.

How many unaccompanied minor children are actually unaccounted for?

I believe it is in the best interest of the child, so would you agree with me that there is 20 percent of the people, children that are just twisting in the wind that we are making a bunch of assumptions on?

If I had to vote on your nomination, I got to be honest, I would give a no. I would vote no.