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Pete Buttigieg: “The economy needs to grow from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2023
The economy needs to grow from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.
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Pete Buttigieg
Democratic · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Buttigieg contrasts Biden's economic vision with that of the previous administration and congressional Republicans.

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