the appropriations subcommittee and related agencies will come to order. secretary, thank you for being here again this morning although it could always be better we will get you staffed up to a point this will no longer be the excuse so we will take the next reason it is not working the way it should but we encourage you to continue to do that. aobviously this is a difficult budget for us to talk about and frankly a difficult budget for you to defend forgot the budget control act has impact on this and in the case of the budget that you have been asked to submit, there is a reduction of 14 percent the budget control act would require an overallll reduction of nondefense discretionary spending of 9 percent so this budget even exceeds that but even for the 9 percent as i mentioned with the education secretary, present trump didn t sign the budget control act, president obama di did. you did not vote for it most of us did so there is some chair responsibility with that decisi
14% compared to 2019 and, in particular, cuts funding of the national institutes of health. secretary azar was also asked about the trump administration s support of a court case challenging the legality of the affordable care act. this is about two hours. the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, education, and related agencies will come to order. secretary azar, thank you for being here again this morning and for our efforts to work together. they could always be better. i think we re about to get you staffed up to a point that that will no longer be the excuse. so we ll think of what comes as the next reason this is not working the way it should, but i wanted to encourage you to continue to do that. obviously this is a difficult budget for us to talk about, and frankly i think it s a difficult budget for you to defend, and we ll see what we have to do here. the budget control act has impact on this. in the case of the budget that you have been ask
the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, education, and related agencies will come to order. secretary azar, thank you for being here again this morning and for our efforts to work together. they could always be better. i think we re about to get you staffed up to a point that that will no longer be the excuse. so we ll think of what comes as the next reason this is not working the way it should, but i wanted to encourage you to continue to do that. obviously this is a difficult budget for us to talk about, and frankly i think it s a difficult budget for you to defend, and we ll see what we have to do here. the budget control act has impact on this. in the case of the budget that you have been asked to submit, there s a reduction of 14%. the budget control act would require an overall reduction in the non-difference discretionary spending of 9%. so this budget exceeds even that. i would say for the 9%, as i mentioned last week with the education secre
test test test test test test test test test test test test thank you. i apologize that i had to go to the other hearing on net neutrality so i missed a lot of your statements. i wanted to ask commander white if i could, i know that when you walk too the hhs headquarters and, of course, we went there for a briefing after the zero tolerance policy was put into effect, there s a quote on the wall from former vice president hubert humphrey who the building is named after and says the moral test of a government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children, the twilight of life the elderly and the shadows of life the sick, needy and handicap. we re focusing on the first part, how the administration treated those who are in the dawn of life, the children. commander white, do you believe that this policy passed the moral test that hubert humphrey spoke of? i m really not an expert on such thi
come to order. without objection the chair s authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. welcome, everyone, to this morning s hearing on oversight of the trump administration s family separation policy. i will now recognize myself in opening statement. two years into the trump administration s wide array of dramatic and damaging immigration policy changes, it is unbelievable that so much harm has occurred to so many people with so little congressional oversight. that ends with this new congress. now the first immigration related hearing in this congress, the judiciary committee will finally seek to hold the administration accountable for its indefensible and repugnant family separation policy and for the injuries that it has inflicted on thousands of children and families. even now, months after the height of the crisis created by the administration s implementation of its cruel and inhumane anti-immigrant policies basic questions remain unanswered. in part,