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Donavan McKinney: “Spending a billion dollars a day just for weapons in Iran…”

Featuring: Donavan McKinney, Michigan House of Representatives, District 11

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Episode 8: Pink Collar Candidate, Donovan McKinney

Published | Video Starts at 17:26

Not just taking it away, but they rather spend it on forever wars and instigating fights overseas after we were told they weren't. Exactly. And we got so many people struggling here. So I'm saying if we can afford that Spending a billion dollars a day just for weapons in Iran, not for military personnel, just for weapons. then we have enough money here to make sure that every single person with presents and conditions are covered. Making sure that every child that needs that care gets it. (17:26–17:33)

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Asserts that a billion dollars a day is spent on weapons in Iran, not for military personnel.

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