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John Thune: “The spending went up dramatically when the very issue that…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune: Health Care 101: How Democrats' Policies Fail Patients and Families

Published | Video Starts at 09:16

So we're looking at 24, 25 now, 150 billion a year over a 10 year period. As I said, it ends up being it's been scored by the cbo at about $1.3 trillion. But here's what happened. The spending went up dramatically when the very issue that we're talking about here today, which is these Biden Covid bonuses, they were designed to be in response to the pandemic when they were enacted in 2021. Now, in 2021, as most people remember, we were kind of past the pandemic and that particular legislation, the inflation Reduction act, so called Inflation reduction Act, obviously not the case passed in August of 2021. (09:16–09:32)

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