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Brian Schatz: “Vegetables are up nearly 40%.”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Donald Trump's economy is already hard as it is because of his choices to create shortages of electricity, of lumber, of food, of health care. Electricity prices are going up at twice the rate of inflation. Vegetables are up nearly 40%. Grocery prices are at their highest in three years. And now people are supposed to find hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to spare and every single month or give up their health care coverage and hope they don't get sick. (03:31–03:35)

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