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Jasmine Crockett: “Approximately 50% of our discretionary budget is defense…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 02:24

Because when we add up, if, even if we fired everybody that works for the federal government, it's only maybe 4 or 5% of our budget, but over or Approximately 50% of our discretionary budget is defense, and they can't pass an audit. So why we didn't start there, where Elon has decided that he was going to get two new contracts just in two weeks, one for $400 million to Tesla, another for a little over $300 million to SpaceX. (02:24–02:32)

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Asserts that about half of the U.S. discretionary budget is defense, which has audit issues.

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