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On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
All of these people acting like, ‘Oh, we’re going to set up an agency to identify waste,’
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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AOC criticizes the notion of creating new agencies for waste identification, suggesting it's an old idea.

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