Katie Porter: “The federal government picks up the tab and does the work…”

“Potential risks of people wandering onto the land, getting harmed. The land is polluted, it can't be used. And that's a loss, an economic loss to the taxpayers. Or we, The federal government picks up the tab and does the work, we put it onto the states. This is really simple for me as a parent. If you want to dump the bin of Legos out on the floor and play with the Legos, that's fine.” (14:16–14:23)

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