Obama flack mocks Republicans for August recess

By Nicole Duran

Published August 22, 2016 6:19pm ET

Obama flack mocks Republicans for August recess — White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the U.S and its western allies negotiating the deal with Tehran never set a concrete implementation deadline in the July nuclear agreement. The timing was instead "driven by the ability of the [IAEA] to verify that Iran had completed the steps that they promised to take." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) | Susan Walsh

President Obama’s chief spokesman chastised congressional Republicans on Monday for tabling pertinent issues to take an extended August recess.

They not only took a seven-week vacation without finishing their work, but “they actually spent their seven-week vacation bragging about not doing their job,” Josh Earnest said on Monday.

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