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Mark Pocan: “Right now we've appropriated funds that they're blocking and…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 27:43

Will you abide by what Congress. If we appropriate funds? And they all said yes. But they said it in a little weird way because Right now we've appropriated funds that they're blocking and because we're not standing up to what Donald Trump's doing. So I honestly don't know what to tell you. I went to an event in chippewa falls probably two months ago for a farmer's union. They had 75 farmers in the room. (27:43–27:50)

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Asserts that appropriated funds are being blocked due to lack of opposition to actions by Donald Trump.

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