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David McCormick: “On my first day in the Senate, I would be suggesting…”

Featuring: David McCormick, Republican | U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 2) 4.14.24

Published | Video Starts at 04:25

They're using it, cutting it into all these things and killing us, killing our kids, killing our kids. And we have to take this as the threat that it is. So On my first day in the Senate, I would be suggesting proposing legislation that would use our military to go after the cartels. And that's a big statement. As a military man, I don't say that easily. But when we're killing 100,000Americans a year, we would go in there. We have precision technology. (04:25–04:34)

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Asserts intent to propose legislation to use the military against drug cartels.

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