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Steny Hoyer: “$4 billion from HHS and 8.1 billion from the Department of…”

Featuring: Steny Hoyer, Democratic | U.S. House Maryland, 5th Congressional District

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Hoyer: This Bill is Another Example of One Simple Message to the American People: You're on Your Own

Published | Video Starts at 05:37

And I understand Mr. Zinke will have an amendment to address that problem and I applaud him for it. $4 billion from HHS and 8.1 billion from the Department of Education. Education is the seed corn. We're destroying that. Mr. Chairman, this bill is just another example in a long list of appropriations bills that the majority has put forward One simple message to the American people. (05:37–05:44)

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Asserts that the bill includes funding cuts of $4 billion from HHS and $8.1 billion from the Department of Education.

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