Cory Booker: “It's not a $2 billion slush fund. It is a $1.776 billion…”

“Yeah, I agree with her. The Republican controlled Congress keeps laying down for this president. Let's take this slush run, for example. It's not a $2 billion slush fund. It is a $1.776 billion slush fund. And what that means is he's harkening back to our founding. Now, we fought a revolution to stop exactly this, a ruler, from taking public funds and doing whatever they want with no checks and balances.” (00:27–00:34)

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