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Chris Armstrong: “Trump wants to spend one and a half trillion dollars on the…”

Featuring: Chris Armstrong, Democratic | Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, 7th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 1:04:33

… the morality of a, of a nation is, can often be assessed by, you know, what, it spends. Its money. Yes. Yep. 1,000%. And, and, you know, spending, you know, Trump wants to spend one and a half trillion dollars on the military. while screwing over everything else? Yep. It's just, it's totally, totally upside down. I like to say that we don't have a money problem. Like, it's not that we can't afford these things. (1:04:33–1:04:43)

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Asserts that Trump plans to allocate $1.5 trillion to military spending.

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