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On the recordJune 18, 2013
If instead of spending $800 million on the congregate meals programs, we doubled that to $1.6 million, can you just speak very briefly to the question of both how many people would be helped and how much money we would save doing that?
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren suggests increasing funding for meals programs to help more seniors.

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