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Rashida Tlaib: “A farmer in Wisconsin got up in his town hall, asked him…”

Featuring: Rashida Tlaib, Democratic | U.S. House Michigan, District 12

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Published | Video Starts at 27:35

If you're going to function from a place of fear and be paralyzed on a very critical issue that is not a Palestinian, a Muslim and Arab issue. It is an American issue. One of my colleagues told me A farmer in Wisconsin got up in his town hall, asked him, why the hell are we funding this? He was proud. He's like, good. Listen to the people who might not again share my ethnicity or faith are telling you, overwhelming, stop it. We can't be supporting this. (27:35–27:41)

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Asserts that a Wisconsin farmer questioned U.S. funding related to Israel at a town hall.

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