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Rep. Katie Porter's working-class politics

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Class

In the House of Representatives, the privilege of wealth divides ruthlessly. The folks who have existing wealth are the first ones to say we shouldn't give ourselves a pay raise for the last 15 or 20 years because they're not doing this for a salary. And so I think your experience and kind of the extent to which you view this as kind of an honorific post retirement almost kind of I want to give back versus the one that I'm here to do a job and serve the American people really creates a difference there.

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