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Gerry Connolly: “If we are going to follow the logic that when you get a low score we're going to blow you apart and redistribute your…”

On the recordMay 20, 2019
If we are going to follow the logic that when you get a low score we're going to blow you apart and redistribute your parts, then why not get rid of the Pentagon and we'll divvy it up to Ben Carson and Betsy DeVos?
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly critiques the logic of reorganizing agencies based on low performance scores.

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