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Cory Booker: I actually challenge that. I wonder if my colleagues can beat this, but I do not think anybody in the United States…

On the recordJune 13, 2017
I actually challenge that. I wonder if my colleagues can beat this, but I do not think anybody in the United States Senate right now has cut government more than I had to do, the painful, gut-wrenching cuts, but we cut my government 25 percent, but we also strategically raised taxes.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker reflects on significant budget cuts and tax increases he implemented in local government.

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