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Mark Pocan: “We've spent, I think, $8 billion on amphibious vehicles that…”

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

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And in one of the last, I think it was the last audit, they can't account for more than about a third of their equipment. They don't know where it's even at. And yet we just say, oh, here's a trillion dollars. We've spent, I think, $8 billion on amphibious vehicles that only sink. the most recent class of aircraft carrier. I think it's the Ford class. There's a problem when the toilets clog. You have to flush $400,000 worth of acids down the toilets to flush them. (1:10:35–1:10:48)

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