Your budget proposal cuts apprenticeships, and the budget justification does not propose targeted funding to reach underrepresented populations.

I think I will get right to the questions because I know that my colleagues have additional questions.

I guess that is the question, because we are sort of in uncharted territories.

I am deeply concerned by the President's elimination of these protections.

Will that be a guarantee from you for our students?

This budget reflects the views of an administration filled with people who, frankly, never had to worry about how they were going to pay for their children going to college.

Your budget would cut $9.2 billion from the Department of Education, a cut of 13.6 percent, taking us back to 2002 levels.

But you don't want to put some sand in the gears or find that there is some part of the machine that has sort of run out of its particular maintenance.

So since I have 45 seconds left, it is no question in your mind that it is a gateway to cigarettes?

If you are age 25 to 34, one-third of all deaths in that age group are opioid fatal overdoses.

I look forward to working together, because we have done it before and I hope we do it again.

In Massachusetts, this is a terrible crisis, much like Vermont and Kentucky and other States.