Patrick Leahy

We have to protect important inholdings.

I am deeply concerned that this budget cuts public safety and justice programs at the Bureau of Indian Affairs by more than $36 million from the fiscal year 2017 enacted level.

Americans have a right to clean air and clean water. Your proposal undermines that right.

I think it is going to endanger our Nation's natural and cultural resources.

And I apologize to Senator Tester.

The President's budget proposes to slash Federal investments in affordable housing programs administered by HUD by $7.4 billion.

We wanted to strengthen it. We wanted to expand it. We wanted to reauthorize it.

But under this budget, all these dollars just disappear. And you have to ask yourself where do our fellow Americans go who relied on this?

It slices $7.3 billion from the work of your Department. It decimates Section 8 rental assistance grants that help keep very low-income families, as well as elderly and disabled Americans in decent housing.

Frankly, Mr. Secretary, this budget is a travesty. I have been here with Republican and Democratic Administrations. I have never seen anything like this.

This budget, no matter how you look at it, is going to leave a lot of low-income elderly and disabled Americans out in the cold.

We know the mission of the Army today is unique.

It is good to have these hearings.

You are not going to fulfill the goal for America, making America great, by cutting opportunities for our children and for our schools.

Holding Title I funds hostage to a school choice agenda, especially when it has been previously rejected in a bipartisan vote by Congress will leave the most vulnerable students and school districts behind.

But the Trump budget only extends and deepens those problems.

Unfortunate, the President's proposed budget displays a fundamental lack of understanding of the role of a government of, by, and for the people in supporting the middle class, lifting up the most vulnerable among us, and serving our…

On the campaign trail, President Trump promised his supporters 'a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.'

I have never felt terrorized and I have gone to Canada.

The President claims this blanket travel ban is necessary for our national security because individuals from certain countries pose too great a risk of terrorism.

Now, on the campaign trail, President Trump promised his supporters a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

This budget is really a disservice to the American people.

Our economy is weakened by his action.

Instead of focusing on real threats, the Administration has sought to demonize immigrants.

I think this budget proposal can be summed up pretty quickly--abysmal.