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Joe Manchin: “I will tell you what we were able to do on that. I sent a letter last week immediately to Sonny Perdue, and he answered…”

On the recordMarch 16, 2020
I will tell you what we were able to do on that. I sent a letter last week immediately to Sonny Perdue, and he answered immediately. We were able to get all of the kids--because we have so many children in West Virginia who rely on their breakfast and their lunch from the schools for nutrition, we are going to be delivering. The school is doing that. The State is taking some steps to shut things down. Schools have been shut down. They have said no more community gatherings whatsoever. They have done all of the things they were told to do. We just don't know where the virus may be, if it is there, and how it is going to affect us.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia
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Mar 16, 2020

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