For those covering Xavier Beccera's trip to Waterbury earlier today, please consider including the following statement from CTGOP Chairman Ben Proto:
 
"Republicans have been saying for well over a year that parents are the primary stakeholder in their children's lives. Now, President Biden's HHS Secretary is echoing what parents and the entire across the country have always known: parents, not Hartford, not Washington, not a Governor or President, should be playing the role of parent to a nation's children.
 
“Parents are not ‘domestic terrorists', as President Biden labels them. Nor are parents villainous, murderous horror story monsters have CT Democrats have labeled them; parents are the ones who love, care for, embrace and protect their children, and no one, especially not a politician, should step between a mother and father and their child," said Chairman Proto.