"the President proposes cutting Medicaid by more than $900 billion."
"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"
"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 ..."
"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 fa..."
"As you can see from this chart, WIOA was funded at $4.6 billion in fiscal year 2001. These are programs to train people for the 21st--skills of the future, but it only received $2.8 billion in funding..."
"I think the deficits, as they are now, are not used for the right purposes."
"But when we talk about investing in resources and programs that we know will benefit our children and their future, somehow that is not something that is worth investing in."
"I have seen what these teachers are dealing with, with overcrowded classrooms, with inadequate textbooks, with not having the after-school resources, early childhood investments that we know will impr..."