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Joe Neguse: “Article one, obviously, as you know, gives Congress, gives…”

Featuring: Joe Neguse, Democratic | U.S. House Colorado, 2nd Congressional District

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Congressman Joe Neguse and Jen Rubin discuss Republican plan to Cut Medicaid

Published | Video Starts at 04:45

And that's governed for the better part of the last two and a half centuries. Article one, obviously, as you know, gives Congress, gives the House of Representatives, the Senate, the power of the purse. And I think you raise a reasonable question that's being adjudicated in federal courts across the country as we speak, which is to say, how is it permissible? (04:45–04:52)

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Asserts that Article One of the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse.

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