Political Quotes

“As I move to another topic, I would like to say that this is a message to my constituents and the American people. As you have heard in the news, and were probably frightened by the excerpts, I hold in my hand a budget for America's future. This was offered by the President of the United States. It is frightening in its attack on the basic security, domestic security, of the American people. I would venture to say that even our young soldiers have found the need for their families to sometimes have assistance with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, food stamps. Tragically, this budget digs deep to hatchet away the basic safety net that we have come to understand is not a handout for working families who may be impoverished but a hand-up. I am startled by the cuts, draconian cuts, in this document. I am startled by $1.6 trillion in cuts for Medicare and Medicaid. I am startled by, in the midst of the coronavirus, a more than $4 billion cut in funding for the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control, the very entities that provide lifesaving research and possible cures for the American people and people around the world. The World Health Organization is begging to go into China at this time, and they are looking to have American researchers who are ready and able to go, to determine how to stop, how to determine the origins, and how to thwart what might be a horrific pandemic around the world. How can you cut $4 billion?…”