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Bernie Sanders: “Instead of putting $1.1 trillion into a bloated military, we…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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That we got to raise the federal minimum wage to a living minimum wage at least $20 an hour. It is not insane to say that Instead of putting $1.1 trillion into a bloated military, we should be investing billions...in affordable housing. billions of dollars to build the millions of units of of low income and affordable housing that we need. (05:40–05:55)

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Advocates for redirecting military spending to affordable housing.

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