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Jake Auchincloss: “$1.8 billion is real money.”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Published | Video Starts at 03:20

And I just think it's important to reflect upon $1.8 billion. I get it. In Washington, that can sound like monopoly money. We spend trillions on this and that $1.8 billion is real money. I mean, they're cutting the clean water revolving fund that funds remediation of forever chemicals that allows us to redevelop brownfield sites by about 1.8 to $2.5 billion. (03:20–03:23)

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