05/12/2024
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"Does the gentlelady yield back from getting in between this discussion?"
"the elephant in the room is that after spending $4 billion over the past 3 years to reduce the deferred maintenance backlog, it has somehow increased by almost $10 billion."
"the Administration is proposing a 20 percent cut by going back to Fiscal Year 2023 levels."
"However, you can see in the chart the largest increase in the backlog happened the year prior, in Fiscal Year 2021."