But I do want to impress upon you that right now the community leaders, the mayors of the Borough of the Kenai Peninsula, as well as within the Anchorage area, they are coming to me, not for more in appropriations, because they are not counting on that, they are counting on me for congressionally directed spending.
Murkowski emphasizes the need for congressionally directed spending to address fire threats in Alaska.
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It is the people of Alaska that I worry about the most, especially when it comes to the potential loss of social safety net programs—Medicaid coverage and SNAP benefits—that our most vulnerable populations rely on.
I have made clear very early on that we cannot move forward with a bill that makes cuts to Medicaid.
My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.
I don’t actually want the version of the bill I voted for to become law, and I hope that the House undoes some of the damage in the bill that I and my fellow senators did.
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