Robert Menendez actually said...

"Given all of the challenges and the affordability of housing right now, is this not exactly the wrong time to enact the severe cuts to HUD's budget that the House, I see, is proposing?"

"It also includes Sustainable Communities grants, a letter I led with Senator Landrieu that got a quarter of all Senators on it, which urges funding for locally and regionally driven planning, which is..."

"Well, that is not acceptable. It is unacceptable at any given time. It is certainly unacceptable in these times."

"Well, thank you, and we will look forward to working with you as well, the refining it."