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On the recordJanuary 27, 2025
I think they -- they are clarifying it. And I think this is not unusual for an administration to pause funding and to take a hard look and scrub of how these programs, how they're being spent and how they interact with a lot of the executive orders that the president signed.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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John Thune defends the administration's decision to pause funding as a standard procedure.

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