Bill Lee

To date, that report has not been submitted. So I cannot be nice when I ask about this because this is serious for our Black and brown students.

So what do we need to do to get you to do that, to submit a line-item for us?

When many of us started public schools, schools were segregated. We could not go to public schools. Got it?

These are children who don't even get Head Start because they are kicked out of school before they are even in kindergarten.

You are trying to mask this by saying you are now not going to collect the data by race.

But you haven't done that.

Black preschoolers--again, babies--are three times more likely to receive one or more out-of-school suspension than their White counterparts.

Black students make up 20 percent of preschool children. Now these are babies, right? They represent 50 percent of suspended, again, babies, preschoolers.

We need the data to understand this. I would think you would want the data to understand it also.

Years of research have shown that the abstinence-only approach not only fails in getting young people to delay sex but also can harm young people.

I can't understand why you would eliminate this when we know for a fact that a wide range of evidence-based and innovative interventions to support the sexual health of young people is extremely important.

This budget though calls for $170 million cut in PEPFAR, which does not make any sense.

But actually you are cutting Medicaid, which serves 42 percent of people.

The investment of Ryan White HIV AIDS there is critical.

You zeroed that out. You zero out the racial and ethnic approaches to community health.

You propose to eliminate the teen pregnancy program.

You have a funding cut of $170,000,000 to PEPFAR, which, of course, reduces the transmission of HIV and AIDS throughout the world.

I wanted to ask you how you are rolling out the public education just with regard to which masks are the appropriate ones to use and which ones are not.

There is a wide range of efforts across the country, none of which has given real data or evidence of what is most effective in social distancing.

And to see it being cut like this tells me we are going in the wrong direction.

If banks can't purchase humanitarian supplies, medical supplies, how are what we are doing allowing these supplies to be distributed in Iran, given the emergency?

We need to keep more pressure on the Chinese because that is where all of the fentanyl is coming from.

I visited Sudan a couple of months ago with Congresswoman Bass and a bipartisan delegation, and we were cautiously optimistic about the progress of the new government.

I very much view our focus at, because we are a development agency first and foremost, is to enter into fragile states and developing states and not just where it is easiest.

I think it would be a deeper hole just in terms of the geopolitical dynamics that this message would send in terms of the U.S. versus China.