We want to make sure that every single dollar that we have is used to actually care and provide something that is in line with our values. We have, you know, Minnesota, that's where I come from, it's negative 60 degrees yesterday. We have a homeless crisis. We have people who are freezing. And what we can do with the money that we have is make sure that we're investing $20 billion in providing homes to our homeless folks that would get rid of homelessness in this country. What we can do is that we can stop the constant increase of our defense budget. Since 9 11, it increased nearly 50%. We have not had that high of an increase in education funding. (06:42–07:01)
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