[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 27 (Thursday, February 9, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            OPPOSITION TO THE NEW YORK 2023 BUDGET PROPOSAL

  (Mr. MOLINARO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MOLINARO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my strong opposition 
to New York State Governor Kathy Hochul's 2023 budget proposal.
  Each year, Congress directs billions of Medicaid dollars to the State 
and local government to administer programs to help our most vulnerable 
neighbors.
  Governor Hochul's budget puts these programs at risk and the people 
served in danger. Her budget steals $1 billion in Federal Medicaid 
dollars from the most vulnerable to subsidize a bloated and broken 
State bureaucracy.
  It puts programs that are meant to serve hungry children, 
impoverished seniors, and working mothers on the chopping block.
  That is what is at risk: Things like food assistance and senior 
nursing care and addiction treatment services.
  Governor Hochul is stealing from programs that help children, 
seniors, and those living in poverty and putting Albany bureaucracy in 
control of another billion dollars in taxpayer money.
  Mr. Speaker, I oppose this budget and seek that we protect the most 
vulnerable of our neighbors all across New York.

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