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Mark Pocan: “We're at a trillion dollars now, six years later, and the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 28:32

They failed the last eight audits. They can only account for 55% of their equipment, and yet we keep giving them money. And that was to hold it in. We're at a trillion dollars now, six years later, and the President wants a trillion and a half dollars for essentially defense contractors. This isn't really money that's going to the military. A small part of it is, but most of this is going to defense contractors. So we'll see what they give us. (28:32–28:41)

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Asserts that current defense spending is a trillion dollars, with a proposal for $1.5 trillion.

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