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Cory Booker: “You agree that this is a new threat and that we should be making supplemental new funding, as opposed to taking away…”

On the recordApril 13, 2016
You agree that this is a new threat and that we should be making supplemental new funding, as opposed to taking away urgently needed dollars from currently existing programs?
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker seeks confirmation on the need for supplemental funding instead of budget cuts.

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