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John Cornyn: “This is an awful, awful expensive item, over $300 billion to…”

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Senator John Cornyn Discusses Senate Reconciliation Bill and Gender Dysphoria Legislation

Published | Video Starts at 01:05

What else are we looking at? Well, I know that, I know the speaker has the challenge getting enough votes to pass the bill. But This is an awful, awful expensive item, over $300 billion to basically get the votes of four House members in the Northeast. But what that means is that people from Texas and Louisiana and other states that don't have an income tax have to subsidize these high tax jurisdictions and allow people to write that off of their individual tax returns. (01:05–01:16)

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Asserts that a provision in the bill costs over $300 billion to gain support from four House members in the Northeast.

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