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Steve King: “I think if the gentleman would, that we understand that funds are fungible, and when they go into an appropriations…”

On the recordJune 6, 2006
I think if the gentleman would, that we understand that funds are fungible, and when they go into an appropriations process to a local government, that there can be interdepartmental transfers within those local governments that would be very difficult to track and give a precise answer to. But if funds are going into a local government and local government has a sanctuary policy, one can presume that some of those dollars are being used to support the sanctuary policy. And that is what this amendment seeks to prevent.
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Steve King
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