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Jamie Raskin: “I can't visualize who we are talking about as being overpaid within the government workforce.”

On the recordMay 17, 2017
I can't visualize who we are talking about as being overpaid within the government workforce.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin questions the claim that lower-ranking government employees are overpaid.

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