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Bernie Sanders: “We have got to...cut the bloated military budget.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:04

And right now, when you have a President of the United States who wants to increase military spending by $500 billion, if you can believe it, $500 billion more on top of a trillion dollars, the American people know that what We have got to...cut the bloated military budget. but stop These endless and horrific wars that we're seeing right now in Iran, in Lebanon and elsewhere. The American people from coast to coast finding it very hard to afford housing. (07:04–07:09)

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