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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney
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We can’t let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by and so because of your actions, because of your courage, what you’ve seen is California responding, other states looking at what they can do to offset this mid-decade gerrymandering.
Those are all topics that we have to be able to discuss honestly and forthrightly, while we still insist that in that process of debate, we respect other people's right to say things that we profoundly disagree with.
I think that approach is a smart, measured approach, designed to address a very particular problem in a very particular moment in time.
Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy. Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.





