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Jake Auchincloss: “In too many blue cities and blue states the schools were…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 40:39

We're the party that you can trust to actually deliver on good governance and we haven't been doing a good enough job of that. To me one of the great episodes that demonstrates that was the school closures during COVID In too many blue cities and blue states the schools were closed well past when the social and epidemiological evidence was clear that they should be reopened. I think we lost a lot of trust with voters. I think that we have yet to grapple with that failure and we have yet to offer a solution to the tremendous academic and socio emotional detritus that's been left behind. (40:39–40:49)

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Asserts that schools in many Democratic areas remained closed longer than necessary during COVID-19.

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