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Jim McGovern: “I cannot use as a backdoor by exempting nearly $200 billion in additional defense spending from its BCA cap, while…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2019
I cannot use as a backdoor by exempting nearly $200 billion in additional defense spending from its BCA cap, while slashing non-defense spending well below the sequester level in the name of fiscal austerity.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Opposes exempting defense spending from budget caps while cutting non-defense funding.

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