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Tammy Baldwin: “It is the Congress that sets the budget and appropriates…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Tammy Baldwin Discusses NIH Budget Cuts and Bipartisan Efforts to Restore Funding

Published | Video Starts at 03:41

At current levels or even above and will resist the cuts that the President has proposed. And then we're going to need 60 votes to pass that. But that' syou know, It is the Congress that sets the budget and appropriates money and funds the agencies and the departments. and we will probably just ignore President Trump's budget when we come to next fiscal year. (03:41–03:51)

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Asserts that Congress is responsible for setting budgets and funding agencies.

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