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Ed Case: “The federal government is not funding programs that are…”

Featuring: Ed Case, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 1st Congressional District

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@RepEdCase testifies at Hawai'i Senate hearing on Trump admin threat to rule of law

Published | Video Starts at 42:26

So that money flows down to Hawaii through the state and county governments and through individual federal grants. That money assume, assume that that money is for a law that was already passed. So current fiscal year … The federal government is not funding programs that are funded by law. … should be going out. What the president did at the beginning of this year and continuing to now is he just completely withheld it. For starters, he got sued. (42:26–42:31)

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Asserts that the federal government is withholding funds for programs that are legally funded.

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