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Russ Fulcher: “The counter proposal totals about $1.5 trillion in spending.”

Featuring: Russ Fulcher, Republican | U.S. House Idaho, 1st Congressional District

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Idaho Rep. Russ Fulcher discusses looming government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 00:49

… beautiful bill, namely the situation with taxpayer funded health care for illegals and also removing any work requirements for healthy working age people to get access to Medicaid. That's where The counter proposal totals about $1.5 trillion in spending. And so it's really this counter proposal that is problematic for our situation right now. Well, and those were huge sticking points when the negotiations were happening, happening over this big beautiful bill. (00:49–00:56)

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Asserts that the Democratic counter proposal involves $1.5 trillion in spending.

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