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On the recordJune 6, 2017
You want to be at the Office of Management and Budget, but you will not tell me that shutdown is a bad thing.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Kaine challenges the notion that a government shutdown is negative.

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