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Elissa Slotkin: “The Jewish community is spending about a billion dollars a…”

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

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In Homeland Security hearing, Slotkin urges bipartisan action security grants for houses of worship

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

That's not a political statement, that's a factual statement. From FBI data, we talked about the need to work together. The Jewish community is spending about a billion dollars a year privately securing their own institutions. No religious group should have to spend that amount of money that could be going to lots of other things on their own security in the United States of America. (00:58–01:06)

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Asserts that the Jewish community spends approximately $1 billion annually on private security for their institutions.

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