Cory Booker: “Chris and I went to him and said, this is too low of a…”

“I was talking to Chris Coons about this this morning that he and I couldn't believe the small amount of money for a lot of our global feeding programs, like the World Food Program. Lindsey's on appropriations. So Chris and I went to him and said, this is too low of a number. Can you figure out a way to help us get a lot more into the budget, get it passed. And to his credit, the three of us went to work and got billions more. I mean, literally, I can only imagine that there are tens of thousands of people that, that, that survived as a result of that.” (04:55–05:08)

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