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Pete Hegseth: “The taxpayers not paying for it. That's $50 billion of value…”

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Published | Video Starts at 1:42:07

No, I appreciate, I appreciate what you're saying. They're upfronting crimes are now paying for their own plants and equipment. That's a, that is a brand new paradigm. The taxpayers not paying for it. That's $50 billion of value that you don't have to appropriate because the companies are paying for it themselves. And the companies will not get compensated. They're going to make that as a charitable contribution to the United States government. (1:42:07–1:42:16)

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Asserts that taxpayers save $50 billion because companies are funding their own infrastructure.

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