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Elissa Slotkin: “The public pressure does, especially from veteran groups, by…”

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

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PFAS_ The Next Big Thing with Rep. Elissa Slotkin Mi-08

Published | Video Starts at 18:17

They're more fiscally conservative. They want to spend on something else. There's a million reasons why people didn't want to spend that money. And I think what The public pressure does, especially from veteran groups, by the way, is really say to those people, like, look, if you have the money to send them to war, you have the money to care for them when they come back from war. So that public exposure helps. And I have to say, the other thing on the burn pits that really matter, just like Agent Orange, is you have advocacy groups that … (18:17–18:32)

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Asserts that public pressure from veteran groups emphasizes the need to fund veteran care post-war.

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