If this budget passes, $127.3 billion in discretionary spending would be allocated to HHS--meaning taxpayers would be forced to give your agency an additional $13 billion.

HHS is more interested in serving a splinter group who identify as the progressive left than the American people.

Your administration continues to double down on this policy by clearly targeting the states like Texas, which seek to protect minors from life-altering, and irreversible surgeries and unnecessary treatments.

The staggering price tag does not even include your request for $22 billion for so-called COVID-19 funding.

This is a purely bipartisan issue. The Chairman and I worked hard on it, and we would like to see it implemented appropriately.

I am disappointed that the administration's reckless actions to increase spending, expand the Federal Government's role in healthcare, and increase access to abortion.

I hope your answers to my questions will be way more complete than your responses from last year.

We certainly, when it comes to American's rights, whether you are transgender or not, we will enforce your rights to be protected.

The agency's attempts to force every American in a government-run healthcare and institute price setting schemes must stop.

President Biden's recently submitted budget for fiscal year 2023 is a literal dumpster fire. His budget confirms what we have known all along: He does not have the slightest clue what fiscal responsibility means. Right now, families are…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Carter).

I believe I have the right to close, so I will reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York).