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J. D. Vance: “If you look historically, go back to the Obama administration with the Affordable Care act, you have the…”

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GSAs are a good use of taxpayer dollars, even in a midterm cycle where Republicans have a major cash advantage. Well, look, If you look historically, go back to the Obama administration with the Affordable Care act, you have the people's government using tax dollars to advertise about what the government is doing. It's part of actually, I think living in a constitutional republic, you have to be honest with the American people about what you're doing about what's going on. (00:07–00:20)

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Asserts that during the Obama administration, tax dollars were used to advertise government actions related to the Affordable Care Act.

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