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On the recordMarch 22, 2023
But why would we tell the American people we need to spend $6 trillion of emergency funding in this last Congress, and then find out we are no longer in an emergency and we still are going to spend that money? That, to me, seems like fraud itself.
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John Moolenaar
Republican · Michigan

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Moolenaar questions the spending of emergency funds despite no longer being in an emergency.

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