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Ayanna Pressley: “And if they can approve a $740 billion NDAA, I don't want to hear about a deficit, because the only deficit is a deficit…”

On the recordDecember 18, 2020
And if they can approve a $740 billion NDAA, I don't want to hear about a deficit, because the only deficit is a deficit of empathy, and their abdication of responsibility to lead and to provide the American people for real relief for the hurt that they are experiencing.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Pressley criticizes the approval of a large defense budget while neglecting the needs of the American people.

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