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Blake Moore: “We vote on 22% of our entire budget.”

Featuring: Blake Moore, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 1st Congressional District

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Published June 1, 2026 | Video Starts at 27:04

With Americans for Prosperity approaching our office, seeing the committees that I'm on and my focus on this particular issue. It's called the Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act. Glenn. We vote on 22% of our entire budget. Our entire expenditure topples over 7 trillion. We only vote on 22% of it. The vast majority of it is mandatory spending. (27:04–27:08)

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