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Cory Booker: “200 Americans injured, 13 Americans dead [due to Trump's…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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Cory Booker Calls Out Trump's Dangerous, Strategic Blunders on The Rachel Maddow Show

Published | Video Starts at 01:27

Americans are seeing a cost crisis like you wouldn't believe. And then what does Donald Trump do? After cutting school lunches and cutting veterans benefits, he begins to spend 1 billion … 200 Americans injured, 13 Americans dead [due to Trump's actions]. … the debate, the discussion and the hearings. So when you say these are, these are privileged resolutions, that means that effectively, regardless of what the Republican leadership in the Senate wants, these have to come up. (01:27–01:39)

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