President Trump pretends he believes in deficits and proposes cutting $2,000,000,000,000 from Medicare and Medicaid.
I am concerned that your budget would lead to a weakened public health system that cannot come close to meeting the needs of the public.
I particularly favor the efforts you have made to lower the costs of prescription drugs.
A cut of $5,000,000,000, as the budget proposes, would reverse this trend and send the wrong signals to young scientists.
You are taking the agency from enforcement. You are taking away from weeding out bad actors to offering bad actors technical assistance...
Its mission is to, quote, ``foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage-earners, job-seekers, and retirees of the United States...''
You have allowed contractors who cheat their workers to continue with, quote, ``business as usual.''
For all of our greatest health crises we need our great agencies to be fully involved in finding the solutions.
I would like to increase this budget as much as we possibly can, because I feel we are not really working on numbers here on this committee.
I believe my friend, the ranking member, Tom Cole, will concur that biomedical research is one of the most important investments a country c...
The totality of this budget is contrary to the needs of the American people and the very promises of this administration.