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On the recordFebruary 1, 2017
When you are looking at over a trillion dollars of tax expenditures, you are looking at another significant impact on the deficit.
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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Yarmuth emphasizes the impact of tax expenditures on the federal deficit.

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