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Mark Pocan: “We've doubled diesel costs for my farmers in Wisconsin.”

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 00:45

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. And we may not even get to where we were with the deal we had under President Obama. (00:45–00:49)

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