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Jeff Merkley: “It looked like bombs had gone off in these towns. Thousands of people in the fairgrounds who couldn’t return to their…”

On the recordAugust 19, 2026
It looked like bombs had gone off in these towns. Thousands of people in the fairgrounds who couldn’t return to their homes. We want expertise, and the mistreatment of the federal expertise, the civil service, is going to hurt us for decades to come.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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