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Rep. Rosa DeLauro's Fight For Working America
Rosa DeLauro, Congresswoman and Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Dem. (CT) and the author of The Least Among Us: Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable (The New Press, 2017) talks about what Republicans get wrong about a social safety net and how the GOP healthcare bill just provides a massive tax break for the wealthy and will wreak havoc for working America.