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McCarthy Worried Democrats Will Focus on Investigations

December 10, 2018 at 4:56 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Fox News that Democrats shouldn’t focus on investigating President Trump when they retake the House majority in January because there are bigger issues facing the country.

Said McCarthy: “It looks like what they’re going to focus on is just more investigations. I think America’s too great of a nation to have such a small agenda.”

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