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On the recordJuly 12, 2021
We are incentivizing people in America not to work, and then we're coming back on the other side here and saying, hey, we've got to have more people that come from foreign countries.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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Critique of unemployment benefits discouraging work while advocating for more foreign workers.

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