Steven Horsford

We are a growing state. Putting us into a block grant program and calling it flexibility doesn't work.

Not only would my state lose funding for new doctors under this budget, the plan outlined in your budget would hurt the 630,000 Nevadans who are covered by Medicaid.

So why is the Administration cutting the very program that trains more doctors, including OB-GYNs?

Let's be honest with what it does.

I just wish that we would not bring that misinformation into this Committee setting.

The President also proposes to eliminate $1.7 billion from the Corporation for Travel Promotion, also known as Brand USA. This is a direct attack on Nevada's tourism industry.

A 130,000 Nevada families rely on SNAP benefits to put food on their table, and we know that SNAP has a tremendous multiplier effect in our economy.

We now know that that tax cut has added $1.9 trillion to the deficit, and you are here today to defend a budget that seeks to balance our budget on the backs of working Americans.

Sweeping money from the children of Nevada to balance your budget on the backs of working Americans after giving a tax cut to the very wealthy and big corporations is not going to happen, not on my watch.

Putting people on part-time jobs that don't pay livable wages doesn't get them off a cycle of dependency.

Moving on, the President directly attacks Nevada by completely eliminating $230 million in funding from the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act, also known as SNPLMA.

The President's destructive and irrational budget continues that misplaced allegiance.

This budget would do.

The President is trying to cut nutrition assistance by more than $180 billion.

The President proposes slashing discretionary resources for the Department of Education by $5.6 billion.

The President is going back on his word.

The President proposes cutting Medicaid by more than $900 billion.

He is breaking his promises, and lying to the American people.

Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman, those are the priorities that I am continuing to fight for, not big corporate tax breaks that add more to our deficit and do not improve our economic outlook in the long term.

This legislation empowers the Secretary of Health and Human Services to directly negotiate to lower the price of drugs.

If we prioritize American workers, those who are struggling the most over big corporations than maybe we can improve those economic outlooks

So maybe we should refer to this as the Trump's billionaire and big corporation tax cut and not an America tax cut

Federal Chairman Powell cited income inequality as the biggest economic challenge facing the United States in the next 10 years.

As we await the President's Fiscal Year 2021 budget blueprint, it is important for us to remind the President of all the good that federal investments bring to our states and local communities, its families and workers.

I think the deficits, as they are now, are not used for the right purposes.