"COVID is over. It has been over for over a year now."
"You have the ability to withdraw funding if it looks like these things are--that is some of the hardest things to do, as we know."
"I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets."
"West Virginia needs fewer inefficient and expensive regulations and more job creation."
"most of America would begin laughing at that."
"I am hopeful that we will, once again, be able to come together and produce a bipartisan 2025 bill."
"You have also worked on forgiving a whole lot of student debt, that has diverted a lot of your resources into this."
"I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act."
"I personally am not one of them."
"I don't think the solution to the border issue, and to bringing these astronomical numbers down is to just keep adding more people to process more people because that obviously is not going to have th..."
"I think you told me last time that the--I did ask about how many trucks were being interdicted, I mean, inspected, and you noted that 70 percent, but you didn't give me an exact figure at that time."