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Ron Wyden: “When you are talking about legislation that is going to cost nearly $2 trillion when it is all said and done, it is not…”

On the recordApril 23, 2018
When you are talking about legislation that is going to cost nearly $2 trillion when it is all said and done, it is not easy to fail at your stated goal so spectacularly.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights the failure of the tax law to meet its goals.

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