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Mark Pocan: “We're paying almost $2 more per gallon for gas.”

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

Pentagon Doesn't Have a Game Plan on Defense Spending, Says Mark Pocan

Published May 28, 2026 | Video Starts at 00:41

They were just exchanging fire within the last 24 hours. All I do know is that this president has fumbled this entire war in a most magnificent way. The fact that We're paying almost $2 more per gallon for gas. the fact that we've doubled diesel costs for my farmers in Wisconsin, double the cost of airline fuel, spent over $90 billion on this war. (00:41–00:46)

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