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Gregory Meeks: This country, when President Obama was the President, was in deep debt and was losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a…

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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