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John Yarmuth: “We were running a $1.4 trillion annual deficit. We had lost the month he took office 800,000 jobs, that was the trend at…”

On the recordJune 6, 2017
We were running a $1.4 trillion annual deficit. We had lost the month he took office 800,000 jobs, that was the trend at that point.
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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John Yarmuth highlights the economic crisis when Obama took office.

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