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Elissa Slotkin: “The President may ask for $350 billion to cover the war so…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:49

War. We've heard all kinds of different things, that it's costing a billion dollars a day, that The President may ask for $350 billion to cover the war so far. The bottom line is we're not even having that conversation. We're talking about potentially another trillion plus dollars for the Pentagon. That's on top of the trillion they got last year. (02:49–02:55)

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