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Maxine Waters: “If there was anything that would get rid of the mandate, what would it do to our economy?”

On the recordJuly 9, 2024
If there was anything that would get rid of the mandate, what would it do to our economy?
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters questions the impact of removing the Fed's dual mandate on the economy.

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