this is a budget increase of 30-some percent, and while we want to make sure that the program is developed, at the same time asking for the additional resources without the improved structure and decisionmaking will be a disaster.
Cantwell emphasizes the need for improved decision-making before budget increases.
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This $25.5 million dollar investment that helps this project is going to attract over $100 million in private sector development, and that is why you put federal dollars on the table, and that's what you sent me to Washington to do.
It's going to show that real solutions exist in the community, and that those solutions not only help these young people, but they help our economy by creating a workforce and stability for them and their families.
Today, it is the top fire in our nation. That means [the federal government is] going to give us the resources that we need here on the ground.
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