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Barack Obama: “I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2015
I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in and in relation to South Sudan.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Notice - Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to South Sudan

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