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Steve Scalise: “But for somebody to suggest that a program that has over a 99 percent success rate is a failure or shouldn't have…”

On the recordJune 25, 2020
But for somebody to suggest that a program that has over a 99 percent success rate is a failure or shouldn't have happened is ludicrous.
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Steve Scalise
Republican · Louisiana

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Scalise defends the PPP program's effectiveness against claims of failure.

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