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Senators who want to make workers' preventive health tax breaks more generous or U.S. Labor Department compliance programs more aggressive may have to wrestle with other senators for room in the federal budget.

The Senate Budget Committee leaders told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that it should find some combination of spending cuts and revenue increases that will reduce the federal budget deficit by at least $1 billion over the 10-year period from 2025 through 2024.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.