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Bernie Sanders: “We are spending now what is about a trillion dollars a year…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:07:15

Okay, You raise a couple of very important issues. One Roe touched on. It is not widely known, but We are spending now what is about a trillion dollars a year on defense. A trillion dollars a year. And by the way, there are some geniuses now want to increase that by 50%. Right. Okay. Another 500 billion. Okay. (1:07:15–1:07:18)

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Asserts that the U.S. defense budget is approximately a trillion dollars annually.

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