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On the recordJuly 18, 2017
I thank the gentleman for yielding. There really hasn't. And I want to say that, if you look at the budget, you really get a sense of where the priorities are. They are not investing in climate. They are cutting healthcare dramatically. They are not investing in jobs and infrastructure. Now, as the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz) said, when I was in the State senate--it was actually a Republican-controlled senate--together, we worked on a package and we invested $16 billion into infrastructure because we knew that that was good for Republicans and for Democrats. If you look at what this President has to say, this was a tweet that he just put out: ``Really great numbers on jobs and the economy. Things are starting to kick in now. . . . '' But the thing is that, this week, the White House is calling this ``Made in America Week.'' Well, maybe somebody should let the President know that everything should be made in America, because I happen to take a look at some of the products of the Trump Organization--and I am talking about Ivanka Trump's products and all of the President's organizations' products--and here is what I found: Here is one of the products of Donald J. Trump's signature collection, made in Mexico. Here is another one from Ivanka Trump, made in China.…
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Pramila Jayapal
Democratic · Washington
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Jul 18, 2017

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