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On the recordFebruary 3, 2025
If the gentleman will continue to yield, if you remember, for instance, say a group that gets veterans' healthcare, and all of a sudden, they said: The money is not being spent right. We are cutting it off. You almost have no recourse unless we get rid of this. As I may have mentioned to my friend from Hawaii, the leader in the House Hakeem Jeffries and I will be introducing legislation to undo this, and we are going to fight like the devil to get this undone because this is just a crisis from one end of America to the other. It is this shadow government of people. We don't know who they are, what they believe in, and they have just come and stormed in. It is outrageous and dangerous. Will the gentleman agree with those two assessments?
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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