My words may seem harsh, Mr. Secretary, but really they are a response to 17 pages of testimony, which I read--I read very carefully--that, in my view, were divorced from reality and really read like propaganda.
DeLauro critiques Acosta's budget testimony as unrealistic and propagandistic.
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