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Hakeem Jeffries: “Billions of dollars are being spent to drop bombs on Iran.”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 17:37

Donald Trump has gotten us into a reckless and costly war of choice in the Middle East. Billions of dollars are being spent to drop bombs on Iran. The regime is still intact. We have not decimated their nuclear stockpile to the extent that it exists. And the Strait of Hormuz is now controlled by Iran, which, which was not the case prior to Donald Trump starting this conflict. (17:37–17:41)

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Asserts that the U.S. is spending billions on military actions against Iran.

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