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On the recordFebruary 4, 2020
This is child abuse. This is elder abuse. This is abuse, period--par for the course of this administration, where the cruelty is the point.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Condemnation of current administration's policies as abusive.

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