My Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health held an important hearing entitled "The Fiscal Year 2021 HHS Budget and Oversight of the Coronavirus Outbreak” with Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar. The American people need a well-coordinated, whole-of-government, fully-funded response to keep them safe from the coronavirus threat. Unfortunately, the Trump Administration has mounted an opaque and chaotic response to this outbreak and previously called for slashing almost $700 million from the Centers for Disease Control. The Administration has left critical positions managing pandemics at the National Security Council and Department of Homeland Security vacant. And even now, the Administration continues to devalue Americans’ health security by ransacking funding from other vital public health needs. The House will be advancing a strong, strategic funding package with transparency and accountability that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of the public health threat. I asked the HHS Secretary about the Trump Administration’s assault on affordable health care and pre-existing conditions protections, and their expansion of junk health plans that leave families on the hook for costly medical bills and often do not cover pre-existing conditions.