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Abdul El-Sayed: “We're too busy fighting stupid wars that raise your gas…”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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One-on-one with Abdul El-Sayed, who is running to be the Democratic nominee U.S. Senate

Published | Video Starts at 04:42

… with an education, whether that's vocational training or union sponsored apprenticeship or it's college and grad school. Right. And I think we can pay for it now. Here's the problem. We're too busy fighting stupid wars that raise your gas prices to $5 a gallon and then cutting taxes for billionaires. And so they tell us, oh, we don't have money for that. Well, it seems like we always have money for a war. We always have money to fund ice. (04:42–04:50)

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Asserts that wars and tax cuts for billionaires are prioritized over funding education and healthcare.

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