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Rashida Tlaib: “Do you agree, yes or no, that calling a half a million deaths an epidemic or crisis is hyperbolic?”

On the recordApril 26, 2022
Do you agree, yes or no, that calling a half a million deaths an epidemic or crisis is hyperbolic?
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib challenges McKinsey's representative on the definition of the opioid crisis.

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