James Talarico: “Every dollar we are spending bombing people in the Middle…”

“And I was a few weeks ago in Sandbranch, Texas, which is just a few miles from here, that community doesn't have any running water. It doesn't have basic sewer infrastructure. Every dollar we are spending bombing people in the Middle East is a dollar that we are not spending in our communities in this country. And, Tim, we're. We're always told that there's not enough money for schools, not enough money for health care, not enough money for veterans.” (02:25–02:33)

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