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Hakeem Jeffries: “Instead, sequestration will arbitrarily take 85 billion dollars out our economy, lower our GDP, cost jobs, and harm our…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2013
Instead, sequestration will arbitrarily take 85 billion dollars out our economy, lower our GDP, cost jobs, and harm our economic recovery and global competiveness.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Prediction of economic damage due to sequestration's funding cuts.

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