This Budget relies on anecdotal evidence and false concepts that you call choice and freedom.

Congress never contemplated that the SSAE grants would be used for the purchase of firearms.

I continue to oppose your indefensible silence which leaves the door open to states using Federal dollars to arm teachers versus current law.

71 percent of young Americans cannot qualify for military service because they are, too poorly educated, medically or physically unfit, or have a disqualifying record of crime or drug abuse.

the President's Budget guiding principle, one that bolsters military spending while sharply cutting funding in education and training, while claiming that we simply cannot afford it, is an argument that I wholeheartedly reject, and I am…

Non-defense discretionary programs play a variety of roles in supporting and enhancing our national security by contributing directly to health, education, and development of our youngest generation.

Your budget would slash funding for CDC's Center for Chronic Disease Prevention by a whopping $237,000,000.

Your budget would cut funding for CDC's immunization activities by $78,000,000.

I consider this every bit as much as Defense budget as anything as DOD. I mean, as I have said on many, many occasions, we are much more likely to die in pandemics than in terrorist attacks.

You are responsible for the care of thousands of unaccompanied children who continue to stream across our southern border.

It would also cut the NIH by 13 percent.