06/14/2022
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"States like ours are just in tremendous budget crunches, in part because, when you don't properly house these individuals, the cost of inappropriate care, where it--be in emergency rooms or prisons, g..."
"we were building about 500 new units out of 811 with Federal dollars when I came to Congress, in part because of legislation that I helped write, where now, over the last 3 years, we built 7,500 units..."
"But this year's budget, I think, flat funds 811."
"This small investment that we make at the Federal level saves an awful lot of money to the taxpayer at the State level."