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Markwayne Mullin: “States do line item appropriations and at the same time they…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin | BRCC #326

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:30

Right. We're going to give you a budget of a billion dollars. I don't care what you build with it. Right? You don't. Do we need to do states? States do line item appropriations and at the same time they also do line item veto. Well, we messed up several years ago when we had the New Deal with America underneath Newt Gingrich, which not saying what he did was wrong. (1:01:30–1:01:37)

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Asserts that states use line item appropriations and vetoes to manage budgets.

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