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Barbara Lee: It is more than clever. I think it is wrong to mislead the public as it relates to the numbers. It is cooking the books.…

On the recordJuly 24, 2014
It is more than clever. I think it is wrong to mislead the public as it relates to the numbers. It is cooking the books. It is robbing Peter to pay Paul. It may be budget neutral, but, definitely, the cuts will take place in order to get to a budget neutral plan, and that is the problem I have with this. By consolidating all of these programs and by block-granting these programs, who is going to see the cuts and feel the cuts of the block granting? It is going to be the most vulnerable. Thank you very much for raising that, but it is true. We see this on the Budget Committee each and every day.
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Barbara Lee
Democratic · California
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Jul 24, 2014

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