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Mondaire Jones: “I mean, I think we're probably going to be the closest we'll ever -- we will have ever gotten, to a default, in the…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 2023
I mean, I think we're probably going to be the closest we'll ever -- we will have ever gotten, to a default, in the history of this country. And that's unfortunate, and it is a direct function of how extreme the Republican Party is.

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Jones comments on the risk of default and attributes it to the extremism within the Republican Party.

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