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On the recordJune 26, 2018
I want you to think hard, man, about those helping hands, because, when you zero out the budget of the CDBG program, you are cutting off the helping hand for the poor.
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David Scott
Democratic · Georgia

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Scott emphasizes the importance of the CDBG program for aiding the poor.

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