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Elissa Slotkin: “We need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and…”

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

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Slotkin delivers speech on protecting democracy and fighting authoritarianism

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That means taking big economic swings, declare a housing emergency, create a public insurance option, and fix our taxes so that everyone pays their fair share. But we also need accountability. We need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and weaponize the government against its people. In Poland, they called this plan the iron cleaning the place up. The goal here is to have a list of signature cases that go after some of the most obvious and harmful abuses of taxpayer dollars. (13:38–13:46)

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Asserts the necessity of holding accountable those who misused taxpayer dollars and weaponized the government.

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