Budgets represent priorities, and it's fascinating to me that if you add together the cuts for service operations, forest and rangeland research, and state, private and tribal forestry, that pretty much exactly equals the proposed billion dollars in the reconciliation bill for the ballroom.
Angus King: “Budgets represent priorities, and it's fascinating to me that if you add together the cuts for service operations…”
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Senator King criticizes budget priorities in a Senate hearing.
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