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Jamie Raskin: “We could save $125 billion just by reducing bureaucratic bloat and contractor fraud and waste and abuse and overruns.”

On the recordMarch 20, 2017
We could save $125 billion just by reducing bureaucratic bloat and contractor fraud and waste and abuse and overruns.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin highlights potential savings by addressing inefficiencies in government spending.

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