I am all for the trust funds, but I am not for placing this particular trust fund ahead of every other need of government. That is unfair. It is not right to have a 41 percent increase in 3 years for this program, while cutting all other domestic appropriations by $25 billion, as the Committee on Budget intends to do.
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