Small businesses and our consumers will be the ones that suffer. And then there is this Medicaid expansion that Senator Enzi from Wyoming talked about. There is an unfunded mandate here because Texas didn't get the sweetheart deal that Louisiana or Nebraska or Vermont or Massachusetts got an unfunded mandate of $21 billion over the next 10 years. So not only are people's federal taxes going to go up, they're going to wreck the state budget too by pushing aside other priorities like public education and the like. (13:38–13:55)
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Asserts that Texas faces a $21 billion unfunded mandate over the next 10 years due to the bill.
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