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Jim McGovern: “CBO says it saves taxpayers nothing. Zero.”

Featuring: Jim McGovern, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 2nd Congressional District

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It gives more power to an education secretary who has shown zero interest in helping students, and it lets them freeze aid based on a barely tested system. And by the way. And by the way, CBO says it saves taxpayers nothing. Zero. Then we have the agriculture funding bill, and this one is especially rotten. I serve on the Agriculture Committee. I represent farmers. I represent rural communities. I've Spent my career fighting hunger. (02:57)

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Asserts that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports the Republican student aid bill saves taxpayers no money.

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