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Roger Wicker: “They had no contingency plans for sequestration because it was so utterly irresponsible and unthinkable that it could…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2018
They had no contingency plans for sequestration because it was so utterly irresponsible and unthinkable that it could not happen.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker recalls a previous Secretary of the Navy's disbelief regarding sequestration's possibility.

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