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Cory Booker: “Donald Trump's GAO said, From the richest families, around…”

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

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This is effing ridiculous. That doesn't work. We need to make this program work for the people who need it. To my fierce pragmatists at this table, Donald Trump's GAO said, From the richest families, around 125,000 people, we don't collect $695 billion. And you want to talk about fiscal responsibility, that rich people get to grift and fraud, that that's this committee's job. This is, this is what we do. (00:18–00:29)

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Asserts that the GAO under Trump reported $695 billion uncollected from wealthy families.

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