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On the recordJune 6, 2017
the budget that Mr. Vought helped write is perhaps the most destructive and cruel budget ever presented by a President in the history of our country.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders criticizes the budget's impact on vulnerable Americans.

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