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Diana DeGette: “All the rest of the spending in Energy and Commerce…”

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 15:33

We have. And so, so we started looking at, well, where else could we cut broadband or could we cut spectrum or maybe EPA or anything? Well, we realized All the rest of the spending in Energy and Commerce Committee total, all the rest of it, 500 billion. So if you zeroed out everything else that we do, you'd still be $330 billion short. (15:33–15:41)

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Asserts that the total spending in the Energy and Commerce Committee, excluding Medicaid, is $500 billion.

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