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Mandela Barnes: “The infrastructure bill actually had provisions for border…”

Featuring: Mandela Barnes, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Thank you. Well, this is again, the senator using fear monitoring. As I said before, he's going to continue to use it in every issue. Now, the reality is The infrastructure bill actually had provisions for border modernization, but Senator Johnson couldn't be bothered to vote for it. because he didn't even read the infrastructure bill. He didn't know what was in it. And so if he was very serious about solving a problem, he would have taken the time to do his job. (45:06–45:14)

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Asserts that the infrastructure bill included border modernization provisions, which Senator Johnson did not support.

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