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Patty Murray: “Your budget proposes extending the children's health insurance program by 2 years, it includes draconian cuts to that…”

On the recordJune 14, 2017
Your budget proposes extending the children's health insurance program by 2 years, it includes draconian cuts to that program that would most certainly jeopardize healthcare for millions more children and families.
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Murray highlights the contradictory nature of the budget's proposed cuts to children's health insurance.

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