Clyburn slams Republicans for “jerking people around” with short-term extension of enhanced unemployment benefits

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from CNN,
8/2/20:

Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, derided Republicans and the White House for suggesting a short-term extension of enhanced unemployment benefits, saying Sunday that Congress needs to “quit jerking low-income people around.”

“This one week, two weeks, this jerking people around is not the way we ought to be conducting ourselves as custodians of this great democracy of ours,” Clyburn, the House majority whip, said in an interview with “Face the Nation.”

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