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Two ways health care could complicate reconciliation

There’s been some hubbub about whether health care cuts might be used to offset the cost of immigration enforcement and the Iran war if Republicans try to use a party-line budget process, called reconciliation, to avoid a Senate filibuster by Democrats.

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