I had two amendments of the time of that 14-hour markup that would allocate or appropriate 2 billion for mental health funding through K through 12 and 2 billion for mental health funding for higher education that was voted against by every single democrat on this committee.
Miller-Meeks criticizes Democrats for voting against mental health funding amendments.
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