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Tom Emmer: “Just look at the 68 page counter proposal they filed in the…”

Featuring: Tom Emmer, Republican | Majority Whip, U.S. House, Minnesota's 6th District

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown

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14 times they have voted against low income Americans who rely on programs like SNAP and wic. Why not? Because they actually care about lowering the cost of health care like they claim. Just look at the 68 page counter proposal they filed in the Senate. Only one and a half pages reference health care. The other 66 outline their radical policy priorities like billions of dollars for foreign climate projects or 500 million to prop up leftist media outlets. (19:27–19:38)

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Asserts that the Democratic counterproposal in the Senate is 68 pages long, with only 1.5 pages on health care.

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