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Are there examples in U.S. history of Congress or Senate passing budgets that remove funding for programs that had been voted into law by prior Congressional sessions?

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While serving in Vietnam my Dad (U.S. Navy) walked past a Caucasian women that was cultured locally, spoke no English or French and her "family" were natives, no Western mother or father around. Who could she have been? How common was this?

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Are there examples in U.S. history of Congress or Senate passing budgets that remove funding for programs that had been voted into law by prior Congressional sessions?	213
While serving in Vietnam my Dad (U.S. Navy) walked past a Caucasian women that was cultured locally, spoke no English or French and her "family" were natives, no Western mother or father around. Who could she have been? How common was this?	51