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Joe Manchin: “I commend you for that. However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs…”

On the recordApril 16, 2024
I commend you for that. However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs that would spend too much money that we--in this day and age, we just do not have.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin criticizes the budget for including excessive partisan spending.

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