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Bernie Sanders: “We're spending more than the bottom, the next nine nations…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Discusses Politics, Wealth Inequality, and Healthcare on Flagrant Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 1:06:57

We have enough money in this country to do any goddamn thing you want to do. In this particular budget, we're now spending a trillion dollars on the military. They want to spend 150 billion more. We're spending more than the bottom, the next nine nations combined. So what we're doing is giving tax breaks to the rich, spending more money on the military, and then we're going to cut Medicaid. So the way in this country, literally. (1:06:57–1:07:02)

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