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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “A trillion dollars was gutted out of our health care system…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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AOC in Conversation with David Axelrod

Published | Video Starts at 1:11:31

I can't tell you how the average American is going to benefit from it. But I can tell you how we are going to pay the price. We're going to pay the price because A trillion dollars was gutted out of our health care system to pay for an extrajudicial force. that is building a mass surveillance database of everyday Americans, scanning your face, observing your online activity, looking at your purchases without so much as a judicial warrant when they decide to bust into people's houses. (1:11:31–1:11:39)

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Asserts that $1 trillion was removed from the healthcare system for an extrajudicial force.

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