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Elizabeth Warren: “We could have provided humanitarian assistance for countries…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 11:31

We could have funded Direct File, the program that lets Americans file their taxes online and for free. We could have funded that for two, two whole decades. We could have provided humanitarian assistance for countries around the world for almost three full years. That is a huge amount of money. And I want to talk about one more thing we could be spending taxpayer money on instead of Trump's reckless war in Iran. (11:31–11:39)

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Asserts that $12 billion could provide humanitarian assistance globally for nearly three years.

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