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On the recordMay 3, 2023
My concern is this, and I expressed this when I was running for office, is that a lot of people, unfortunately, folded some of these funds--these emergency funds--into essentially programmatics and they started depending on them knowing full well that they were going to sunset.
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Derrick Van Orden
Republican · Wisconsin

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Van Orden highlights concerns about reliance on temporary emergency funding for services.

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