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Chris Coons: “We all saw how, in the last year of the previous administration, the absence of a Senate-confirmed administrator led to…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 2021
We all saw how, in the last year of the previous administration, the absence of a Senate-confirmed administrator led to real drift and some challenges operationally and organizationally.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Coons critiques the previous administration's lack of leadership at USAID.

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