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All we're doing is saying we need to be efficient stewards of taxpayer money.

We do that by cutting out fraud, waste, and abuse.

Republicans in Congress make the case for President Trump's big budget bill.

It's Thursday, July 3rd, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.

I'm Ashley Locke, in for Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, experts say Trump's sweeping legislation could result in one of the biggest

rollbacks ever in federal support for health insurance coverage. And the Department of Education

has announced its withholding $7 billion in funding for schools. For certain school districts,

it injected some chaos into their planning for the upcoming

school year, which, you know, in some places, is only weeks or a month and a half away.

But first, most, if not all of the president's second-term agenda is wrapped up in this massive

tax and spending package. Tax cuts cuts increases in spending on defense and immigration

and cuts in spending on social welfare programs such as Medicaid and food stamps that partially

pay for it all. Colorado Republican congressman Gabe Evans joined Robin Young to talk about his

support for the bill.

He spoke with her ahead of the House vote to get it to President Trump.

Well, let's level set here because there's a ton of misinformation.

And I'll refer first to a headline from the Denver Post that came out yesterday.

And I've got it in front of me, so I'll read it verbatim.

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