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Tom Cole: “The percentage of the HUD budget devoted to Native American…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Tom Cole Asks HUD Secretary About Decrease In Federal Funding For Tribal Housing Programs

Published | Video Starts at 00:39

And we found, of course, the absolute number had gone up, but it had dropped pretty dramatically as a percentage. It's not a large portion of the budget. It was less than 3%, I think about 2.8% The percentage of the HUD budget devoted to Native American housing has dropped to about 1.5 or 6%. in that kind of neighborhood. So we saw, really. And it wasn't associated with any particular administration, one party or the other. It was just out of sight, out of mind, declined for 30 years. (00:39–00:51)

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