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Pramila Jayapal: “We are not going to save the speaker, because he has been a completely untrustworthy negotiator.”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2023
We are not going to save the speaker, because he has been a completely untrustworthy negotiator.
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Pramila Jayapal
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Jayapal criticizes Kevin McCarthy's reliability as a negotiator and expresses no intention to support him.

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