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Diana DeGette: “51 separate bills, many of them health care bills, things…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Congresswoman Diana DeGette Discusses Impact of HHS Layoffs and Medicaid Cuts

Published | Video Starts at 07:56

But as Congressman Ochenklaas just said, that sort of again ignores the issue that we had this great big agreed upon package in the continuing resolution last fall, 51 separate bills, many of them health care bills, things like the special diabetes research that I've championed...abruptly stripped out of the continuing resolution when Elon Musk said he didn't want to do it. resolution when Elon Musk said he didn't want to do it. So we've been really pushing to and he said this, we've been really pushing to have this bill come up on the floor. (07:56–08:21)

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Asserts that 51 bills, including health care bills, were removed from a resolution due to Elon Musk's influence.

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