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Steve Womack: “You have got a tough job. I mean, how do you--if you look at the spectrum of the federal government, what we fund, how…”

On the recordMarch 11, 2019
You have got a tough job. I mean, how do you--if you look at the spectrum of the federal government, what we fund, how is it possible to come up with any kind of a plan, any kind of a budget that could satisfy all of the desires, all of the pet projects, all of the needs, all of the urgencies?
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Steve Womack
Republican · Arkansas

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Womack acknowledges the challenges of creating a federal budget.

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