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On the recordJuly 11, 2018
This country, when President Obama was the President, was in deep debt and was losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Mr. Meeks contrasts economic conditions under Obama with those under the current president.

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