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Mike Kennedy: “These are federal state coalitions and we need to empower…”

Featuring: Mike Kennedy, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 3rd Congressional District

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The one size fits all approach of the federal government does not allow innovation. And many of these programs, if you talk about SNAP and Medicaid as an example, is that These are federal state coalitions and we need to empower the states to have the innovative capacity to execute on different aspects of these considerations. And when it comes to if you're going to earn more money and your Medicaid benefits might be jeopardized, even though your SNAP benefits would continue that the state should … (33:54–34:07)

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Asserts that federal-state coalitions should empower states to innovate in program execution.

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