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Steve Daines: “We hoped that would be able to cut that backlog in half. Unfortunately, we now know, at the end of Fiscal Year 2022, the…”

On the recordMay 9, 2023
We hoped that would be able to cut that backlog in half. Unfortunately, we now know, at the end of Fiscal Year 2022, the total deferred maintenance backlog is more like $22 billion.
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Steve Daines
Republican · Montana

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Daines discusses the disappointing increase in the maintenance backlog despite hopes for improvement.

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