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On the recordNovember 28, 2023
About $6 million, even on the high end. Even if you take 100 percent of that cut from that $14 to $15 million, that is still less than 1 percent of the CBO estimates that the then-Republican Majority said would pay for all of these tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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She highlights the discrepancy between actual revenue from oil leases and initial revenue estimates.

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