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Greg Casar: “For those billion dollars in taxpayer dollars, at $4.60 a…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Rep. Greg Casar: Why should taxpayers pay for Trump's ballroom?

Published | Video Starts at 00:28

Taxpayer dollars will not be used to build a ballroom. But they are donations from private enterprise. We are voting on $1 billion in taxpayer dollars in addition to those private donations. And so, For those billion dollars in taxpayer dollars, at $4.60 a lunch, that is 217,391,304 lunches. That's lunch for more than a million kids, a million Americans for the entire school year. So here's my real question here as secretary of Education. (00:28–00:40)

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