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Tammy Baldwin: “The appropriations process is called for in the…”

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Published November 5, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:00

I mean, so many things. So we decide how much each of those accounts will have and then appropriate the dollars to them. Yeah. So The appropriations process is called for in the Constitution. Congress writes the budgets, Congress passes appropriation bills, and it's supposed to be the President who implements what we do, which. Is what the problem is right now. That's exactly right. (01:00–01:06)

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