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Adriano Espaillat: “This Administration has been discredited with regards to fabricating emergencies when there are not and ignoring…”

On the recordJune 11, 2019
This Administration has been discredited with regards to fabricating emergencies when there are not and ignoring emergency when in fact there are emergency.
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Adriano Espaillat
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Espaillat criticizes the Trump Administration for misusing emergency declarations.

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