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John Cornyn: “Democrats are asking us to spend billions of dollars in new…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Cornyn Factchecks the Left on Democrats' Shutdown Claims

Published | Video Starts at 13:23

But this is a provision the Democrats now want to repeal the prohibition we passed in the one big beautiful bill, the Working Family Tax Cuts Act. What's more, Democrats are asking us to spend billions of dollars in new spending. because they won't vote for a stopgap spending measurements. So we know that the Affordable Care act subsidies, in other words, Obamacare is enormously expensive. (13:23–13:31)

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