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Mark Pocan: “We got over almost 100 votes to cut the Pentagon budget by…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Published | Video Starts at 34:51

I know you don't know this, but I started a caucus on trying to cut Pentagon weeks in fraud a couple sessions ago with broader leaks. So, yes, we are trying to do that. And We got over almost 100 votes to cut the Pentagon budget by 10%, which would have been about $100 billion. So about as much as Doge is doing for all of firing of people we could have done with a single vote. (34:51–34:58)

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