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Russell Vought: “We cut the agency in half and returned $400 million that we…”

Featuring: Russell Vought, Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget | National

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Sean Casten Rains Down Shame On Russell Vought In Tense Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:29

How does abandoning efforts to provide billions of dollars in financial remedies and just turning this agency into a net cost consumer, how does that help consumers? How does that help America? We cut the agency in half and returned $400 million that we didn't need to draw from the treasury, from the Federal Reserve. Sir, you understand that the United States economy actually has a private sector. When you take $3 from consumers to save a dollar in the federal government. I'll give you a second. (03:29–03:35)

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