HHS secretary: Al Sharpton ‘has spent his life fighting for what’s right’

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell on Monday morning praised Al Sharpton in a breakfast speech before his National Action Network.

“I’ve had the pleasure of knowing the Reverend for many years, and have worked with him from my time in the Clinton administration to my time at Walmart to now,” Burwell said, according to her prepared remarks.

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