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Pete Buttigieg: “The Pentagon's reported 200 billion supplemental funding…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Well, first of all, I'm just thinking about how much that costs us, literally? I mean, if you just do the napkin math, $200 billion in a country our size, it's something like 600 … The Pentagon's reported 200 billion supplemental funding requests making the rounds right now. … and don't want. And we hear the secretary carrying on like that. I mean, it sounds more like the Iraqi information minister that many of us remember from the early … (02:36–02:40)

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Asserts that the Pentagon has a 200 billion supplemental funding request.

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