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Tom Cole: “There was a 32% increase in spending on Indian reservations…”

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 01:21

And when I was fortunate enough to be here, we had a substantial increase to get back to work, not to replace all the intervening lack of investment, but to get back up to where we had … There was a 32% increase in spending on Indian reservations to get back to late 1990s levels as a percentage of the HUD budget. … now, the budget that you're bringing before us would basically undo that. I mean, we would drop from $101.35 billion in FY26 to 887 million. So that's a 34% reduction. (01:21–01:30)

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