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On the recordMarch 27, 2017
we have a budget which we submitted today, the Skinny Budget, so called, for 2018, which proposes to just completely obliterate AmeriCorps.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney criticizes the proposed budget cuts to AmeriCorps.

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