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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: “This is about American manufacturing of munitions. That is…”

Featuring: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Democratic | U.S. House, Washington, District 3

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US lawmakers from both parties discuss new border security and foreign aid bill

Published | Video Starts at 13:06

A lot of the money will stay in this country. Can you speak to that? That's right. I mean, we are not talking about sending $80 billion out to somebody with a clipboard. Right. This is about American manufacturing of munitions. That is where the vast majority of this money is going to stay. And when you think about deterrence on a global scale of our enemies attacking us or our allies, it is predicated on having a strong munitions and national manufacturing capacity. (13:06–13:13)

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Asserts that the majority of the money in the bill will stay in the U.S. for manufacturing munitions.

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