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Chuck Grassley: Around here, we use the words ``budget gimmickry'' pretty freely. And I want to say, as an example, that every Senator…

On the recordDecember 20, 2024
Around here, we use the words ``budget gimmickry'' pretty freely. And I want to say, as an example, that every Senator in this Senate knows the term ``Medicare sequester'' as a budget gimmick, so something at the end of the 10-year window we are going to draw in to spend money today. That is one example of a budget gimmick. I just want to make sure that we don't widen that down the road. I yield the floor.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa
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Dec 20, 2024

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