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User Clip: 170622 Cornyn Said Cutting Entitlement Growth Rates Doesn't Mean Cutting Spending

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August 17, 2020

"But the idea that just because--compared to an uncapped entitlement with no limits on spending--we end up spending a set amount, as we spen… read more

"But the idea that just because--compared to an uncapped entitlement with no limits on spending--we end up spending a set amount, as we spent this year or will spend next year and add more each year based on the cost-of-living index, that somehow is a cut, is just ludicrous. That is certainly not my understanding of what a cut is; it is a reduction in the rate of growth. So if you call that a cut, that assumes we are going to spend all of that uncapped amount of money, and we can't sustain the program if we do that." close

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User Clip: 170622 Cornyn Said Cutting Entitlement Growth Rates Doesn't Mean Cutting Spending

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