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Gwen Moore: “We can't use transportation funds in Wisconsin or education…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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Congresswoman Moore Challenges GOP Attacks on Programs that Help Children and Families

Published | Video Starts at 01:32

There's no law against the states having stopgap measures to fund where there are real needy folks who are losing out because of the larger defrauding of the government. Mr. Harrington. So there's a safety net at the state and local. No, there's not. We can't use transportation funds in Wisconsin or education funds to backfill childcare money that could come out of TANF. That's not true. That's money is not fungible. There's no program integrity in anything. If you can do that. Oh, we don't have childcare money, so let's just take it out of the education pot. (01:32–01:41)

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Asserts that in Wisconsin, transportation or education funds cannot be used to replace TANF childcare funds.

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