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On the recordSeptember 5, 2017
And I cannot sit here today, especially in this moment of rising white supremacy around the country and in the Oval Office, without directly confronting that these assumptions often have racist undertones.
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

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Catherine Cortez Masto addresses the racist undertones in assumptions about Lifeline recipients.

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