Edward Markey: “We need to slash the Pentagon budget and end these wars now.”

“The United States cannot be complicit in the horror of illegal, senseless war. Not in Iran, not in Lebanon, not in Gaza. We need to slash. We need to slash the Pentagon budget and end these wars now. I know. I know how important it is to fight and to be on the right side of history, to take tough votes, to be one of only a handful …” (10:36–10:42)

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