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Mike Lee: “We're talking about somewhere between 230 and 260,000 hard…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 22nd

Published | Video Starts at 23:14

So a picture is beginning to emerge. They don't want to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security. We're talking about somewhere between 230 and 260,000 hard working Americans who are not making a lot of money. They're paid for their services, but they're not getting rich off of this. Many of them, I would imagine, are living paycheck to paycheck. (23:14–23:25)

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Asserts that the Department of Homeland Security employs between 230,000 and 260,000 people.

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