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"The 'Woke Screen' is a Smoke Screen" -- Whitehouse Blasts Extreme GOP Budget Cuts - Sen. Whitehouse
March 1 - Budget Committee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joins a press conference with Senate Democratic leaders detailing the real-world effects of a federal budget modeled after the one written by Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought. Vought’s budget uses the word “woke” 77 times, and cuts Medicaid, SNAP, college affordability programs, ACA tax credits, and disability programs.
