BOEM is playing a vital role in facilitating the development of offshore wind energy, which has the potential to create tens of thousands of jobs.

Thank you, Chairman Stauber, Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez, and members of the Subcommittee.

These projects will not just bring New Yorkers and the country clean energy. They will bring billions of dollars of revenue and 10,000 jobs to the state.

USGS needs to focus on issues that matter to the Americans here at home, and I am happy to support them when they do.

We are very proud of much of the work and much of the progress that has happened over the last two years.

Can you explain the concern with respect to the equity of audits and, particularly, any drops in audit rates for incomes making over $500,000 a year?

Let us look into the decreasing IRS' revenue that has contributed to a loss in revenue from taxing the wealthiest Americans.

This week Republicans introduced their legislation to bring the U.S. Government into default.

And we have seen, according to your May 2022 report, Mr. Dodaro, GAO, you reported a decrease in audit rates of individual tax returns, correct?

In fact, when tax cuts in 2017 were passed by the other side of the aisle, we see wonderful tax cuts for yacht owners and private jets.

Instead of looking at climate and instead of looking at cuts to healthcare, we should examine why our colleagues and the Republican Party is so invested in protecting the wealthiest people in this society.