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House panel OKs human services budget bill that includes $300 million in cuts
By Todd Abeln
Crafting a budget that calls for $300 million in cuts can be difficult.
Yet, the House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee accomplished that task Thursday when they approved the delete-all amendment to HF2434, as amended, and sent it to the House Ways and Means Committee.
“It has been a difficult conversation, knowing the targets we had,” said Rep. Mohamud Noor (DFL-Mpls), a committee co-chair. “… It was a difficult budget to cut, the difficult choices that we were able to make.”
He said the committee may not be proud of what it had to do, but did what was assigned.
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