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Gretchen Whitmer: “If I hadn't asked those questions and the follow up too, I…”

Featuring: Gretchen Whitmer, Democratic | Governor of Michigan

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And that's money out of her rent, out of childcare. And it was like that for me was the moment. And If I hadn't asked those questions and the follow up too, I might not have ever really appreciated what basic infrastructure means to normal people. who are just trying to take care of their family and get ahead. And that's about affordability. It always comes down to that. And then it becomes the whole, like, cap. (18:00–18:10)

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Asserts that asking questions helped her understand the importance of infrastructure to constituents.

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