Bill Lee

we can achieve an AIDS-free generation by 2030. We can't do that if we back off now, Mr. Secretary.

I would think that you would look at this and see other areas where it could be better utilized in terms of your overall mission in the State Department.

I mean, this is pretty bad, if you ask me.

How can we justify cutting our development assistance programs and eliminating this program, which, of course, is going to do nothing but create more despair and instability in an already fragile nation?

When you look at the Department of Labor, there is a 21-percent cut, which decreases Federal support for training...

it is very hard for me to understand how you can support this--and I say Steve Bannon's budget--given your presentation today.

So what in the world is going on, and how in the world would you survive with no public funding, or would you?

How do you justify these enormous cuts while millions of children are severely malnourished and depend on this critical funding for lifesaving food and care?

I am reminded of Steve Bannon's statement that their agenda and their goal was to deconstruct the administrative state.

We know that the 2001 authorization was specific to 9/11. And I voted against it because I knew it would be broadly interpreted, which it has been. Sadly, it is a blank check for war. Actually, the Congressional Research Service provided…

Do you really believe--or do you believe that low-income people deserve the same access to quality health care as upper-income individuals?

This is outrageous. ... We are going backwards. We are going to lose the progress that we have made.

I can't understand why, given what is taking place on the continent of Africa, why the President's proposed budget cuts, I think it is about $3 billion in aid to Africa.

The budget impacts the continent of Africa in many, many ways as it relates to their development needs from the past.

But, Mr. Secretary, your budget does not say that. It is a road map to deconstructing the entire agency which you head.

And I think that is the beauty of PBS and NPR, that, you know, my constituents may like some of the programming. They may not like some of the programming.

Regarding an estimate of the costs, including staff time and the cost to update the contract clauses with this new executive order, I defer to the Department of Health and Human Services, as the program official administering the funds.

It appears that you want, and your agency wants to actually deconstruct the department that you are leading.

So your answer is no, You don't support----

we are saving a lot of lives, and we are moving towards an AIDS-free generation.

What I am concerned about and what I would like to hear from you is, just in terms of our safety net programs that are being cut...

I know for a fact, in my area, at Treasure Island, the Job Corps program serves many, many young people who never would have had those opportunities, whether they have children or not.

this zeroing out of PBS and NPR, once again, goes--and flies in the face of our democratic principles.

wherever there are any difficulties, we need to get them corrected very quickly.

the only way that we can really approach this at this point, and we do you know many things and it just has not worked, would be to stop the profiteers from lining their pockets while their citizens starve.