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Rashida Tlaib: “So you don't think it is an integral part to ensure that State and local government in the public sector is stabilized…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2020
So you don't think it is an integral part to ensure that State and local government in the public sector is stabilized and will not go bankrupt like the City of Detroit did?
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib challenges Powell on the importance of stabilizing state and local governments.

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