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House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) will not attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Democrat to skip the speech.
“I will be hearing from the people of my district about their personal experiences with skyrocketing costs, new barriers to health care, dismantled Social Security services, and brutal cuts to medical research,” Clark said in a statement.
Clark joins a still-growing list of Democrats who have announced their intentions to skip the speech….
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