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Eliot Engel: “I would like to hear your opinion, one of the reasons we failed was the lack of funding.”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2017
I would like to hear your opinion, one of the reasons we failed was the lack of funding.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel attributes failures in the State Department's transformation to insufficient funding.

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