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Jeff Smith: “The joint finance Committee, once again controlled by the…”

Featuring: Jeff Smith, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 31

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Jeff Smith Show: Working for Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 14:31

So those are important, important pieces to our economy and how it affects our economy. So the concern is that that's coming to an end. The joint finance Committee, once again controlled by the majority party, has actually removed [childcare funding] from the budget, along with 600 other parts of the budget that the governor proposed. We don't know what their plan is in that regard. I know that there is a bipartisan alarm out there that this is really going to have some negative effects, … (14:31–14:45)

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Asserts that the joint finance Committee removed childcare funding and 600 other budget items proposed by the governor.

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