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Evening Newscast: Thursday, July 13

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Montana’s Democratic Senator Jon Tester wants to know how the Trump administration’s proposed 2018 federal budget will affect the Indian Health Service.

 

Tester turned to the troubled agency’s new Acting Director, Rear Admiral Michael Weahkee, for answers Wednesday. It did not go well.

 

Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, was "horrified" as she cited statistics and quoted lines from a Wall Street Journal article about how the IHS fails Native Americans