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| Critics can't seem to stop being astounded by the amount of backtracking holdout Republicans did on Trump's controversial budget bill this week. 'The contortions they made before they voted for it were funny,' said Sam Stein to Bulwark Podcast Host Tim Miller. -- They just continued to draw lines in the sand that they knew they were going to flagrantly violate. ' [Rep.] Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said $500 billion in Medicaid cuts is my red line. And I'm like, 'no. You voted for $1 trillion.' ' But the one that killed me was [Rep.] David Valadaeo (R-Calif.) ' You can't put out a statement like 'I will never vote for the Senate version, and then''three days later''be like, 'alright. I'm ready to ride.' |
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