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Elizabeth Warren: “$40 billion could fund the Consumer Financial Protection…”

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

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On Senate Floor, Warren Supports Merkley's Protest Against Trump Refusing to Protect Health Care

Published | Video Starts at 12:38

… Trump administration is cutting, to cancel student loan debt, to fund public media, to to restore humanitarian aid and usaid. Or to put it in a different perspective, that same $40 billion could fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop big banks and giant corporations from scamming people for almost 50 years. And it could pay for 100 Qatari jets, one for every governor in the United States, plus a spare jet for them. So there you have it. (12:38–12:48)

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