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6 October
10:19 pm

the big beautiful bill did not come out of the appropriations committee. It did not go through our committee. At all.

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Susan Collins, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 1 (WGME)

10:19 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific procedural claim about whether the 'big beautiful bill' went through the appropriations committee — verifiable against congressional records
What we foundThe One Big Beautiful Bill was passed through the budget reconciliation process and did not go through the Senate Appropriations Committee at all; multiple independent sources confirm the Appropriations Committee had no role in drafting or advancing the bill.
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