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Ed Case: “We have been presented with a very large budget with…”

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

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@RepEdCase In Appropriations-Defense on National Guard and Reserve Funding

Published | Video Starts at 01:17

So that needs to be emphasized also is your readiness in those times of need. So I thank you for that. We're sorting through kind of a confusing budget right now. We have been presented with a very large budget with insufficient detail, and that budget is conflated as between discretionary and proposed reconciliation funding. funding. We've been trying to sort through the overall thinking of the department, the individual services and the individual components in terms of what is allocated to each of those buckets and why. (01:17–01:31)

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Asserts that the budget presented is large, lacks detail, and mixes discretionary with reconciliation funding.

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