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Elizabeth Warren: “$50 billion. How much the Trump administration says it wants…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 08:37

The cost of munitions spent by the Pentagon in the first two days of of the war. 300 million. The cost to replace three F15s lost to friendly fire in the first week of the war. $50 billion. How much the Trump administration says it wants to add to an already massively inflated defense budget to pay for a war that was never authorized by Congress? $1 trillion. The Pentagon's budget this year. One and a half trillion dollars. The total amount that Trump is reportedly requesting for the Pentagon budget for next year. (08:37–08:50)

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Asserts that the Trump administration wants to add $50 billion to the defense budget for the war.

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