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Elissa Slotkin: “Gas in Michigan is $4.99 today.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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LIVE: Slotkin Questions Secretary Pete Hegseth at Senate Armed Services Committee

Published | Video Starts at 01:10

And I think the difference with this war with Iran is that the American public is feeling it in their pocketbooks. Gas in Michigan is $4.99 today. The cost of fertilizer, of airline tickets, things that are real to people. Secretary Hegseth, the president said that you were most keen on this war. (01:10–01:13)

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