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Elizabeth Warren: “$12 billion is what it would cost to restore the expanded…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 09:54

So instead of going to war with Iran, we could lower health care costs and actually save lives here at home. Here's one more. $12 billion. A number we've already passed. $12 billion is what it would cost to restore the expanded child tax credit for one year. So in less than two weeks of Donald Trump's war, we spent the same amount of money that would have lifted millions of kids out of poverty for the same … (09:54–10:01)

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Asserts that restoring the expanded child tax credit for one year would cost $12 billion.

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