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Burgess Owens: “I think we brought back close to a billion dollars in that…”

Featuring: Burgess Owens, Republican | U.S. House Utah, District 4

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OWENS Joins the Rich Valdes Show

Published | Video Starts at 02:11

We're going through a reconciliation and reconciliation can only deal with mandatory. That's the Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare. That's all we can touch. And I think we brought back close to a billion dollars in that one area. Then we have residuals which are going through right now, things that the discretionary things like us, USAID, those kind of things. And we bring back $9.4 billion there. (02:11–02:14)

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