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Tammy Baldwin: “There was $150 billion allocated for defense purposes above…”

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

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The Conference: Healthcare with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)

Published | Video Starts at 04:10

Well, first of all, what I'm thinking is that in what we'll talk about shortly, I'm sure he calls one big beautiful bill Act a lot of us call the big ugly bill. We can call it all sorts of things. But in that There was $150 billion allocated for defense purposes above and beyond appropriated funds. which are supposed to be adequate to the task. And so that $150 billion could have gone to things that were drastically cut in that measure, like Medicaid or nutrition assistance, but instead was allocated towards the Department of Defense. (04:10–04:20)

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