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Ro Khanna: “It means opposing bloated defense budget.”

Featuring: Ro Khanna, Democratic | U.S. House California, 17th Congressional District

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Published February 23, 2026 | Video Starts at 1:01:51

That means taxing billionaires. It means being for Medicare for all. It means $10 a day childcare. It means being for a living wage. It means opposing overseas wars. It means opposing bloated defense budget. If we have the conviction of standing for these policies, people will respond to it. Instead, we just. We don't want to offend the corporate interest, the money. (1:01:51–1:01:54)

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Asserts that opposing a bloated defense budget is part of the platform needed to win back working-class voters.

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“About 19 billionaires have $3.4 trillion, the equivalent of 12.5% of all the goods and services produced in the United States.”
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“This 50 mile radius around my district includes Stanford, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Broadcom and Tesla is worth over $18 trillion.”
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“One third of the entire nation's stock market is in this district.”
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“Nobel laureate Doraine Smoglu estimates that companies pay zero tax when they have digital tools, AI agents or automation in their…”
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“The defense budget is 56% of the entire discretionary budget of the federal government.”
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“In 1950s, Americans had 80% high school education. In Europe, it was 30 or 40%.”
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“It is a historic moment to have Senator Bernie Sanders here at Stanford, who has done more to tackle inequality of income and wealth than…”
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“This [wealth concentration] is nearly three times more than the wealthiest Americans were worth relative to the size of the economy in the…”
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“Bernie Sanders has also thought more deeply about AI and its impact on the working class than anyone in the United States Senate.”
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“We live in a new Gilded Age tech Billionaires believing that they would have been heroic conquerors in a different era, arresting control of…”
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“Today's wealth concentration is at the highest it has ever been in our nation's history.”
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“Our taxpayers and our philanthropic dollars funded the development of AI at Dartmouth, MIT, and here at Stanford.”
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“The AI revolution can help cure cancer, rare disease, slash housing costs, make it easier to start a business, address our energy needs, and…”
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“We need real protections against mass displacement, beginning with our 3.5 million truck drivers.”
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“Every large company must bargain with its workers.”
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“We need to fix the tax code's anti human bias.”
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“We need to create an annual data dividend so every American gets a check from the data they generate for both the private sector and our…”
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“We must launch a future workforce administration... funded by a modest wealth tax on trillions created here and by a token tax on AI used by…”
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“We will launch a thousand new trade schools and tech institutes so the next generation are prepared for careers that AI cannot replace.”
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“Data centers must serve the communities who power them... Tech companies must pay the full electricity bill instead of shifting costs onto…”
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“We must prevent AI from weaponizing our public discourse... and section 230 protection from amplified violent content.”
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“We need clear enforceable guardrails and mandatory third party verification of advanced AI models so this powerful technology does not cause…”
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“We need a robust federal agency to regulate AI like we regulate nuclear energy or federal aviation.”
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“We need to tear down [ICE] and replace it.”
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“We had an immigration service [INS] from the New Deal up to George W. Bush.”
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“You cannot have an agency [ICE] that has no oversight and that has no sense of Democratic accountability.”
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“I talked about the $18 trillion in my district.”
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“I've called for a Marshall Plan for America advancement, advanced investment in manufacturing, in child care, in elder care, in tech…”
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“Senator Sanders has shown us what the platform needs to be to win back working class voters and labor.”
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“That means taxing billionaires.”
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“It means being for Medicare for all.”
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“It means $10 a day childcare.”
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“It means being for a living wage.”
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“It means opposing overseas wars.”
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“It's about $80 billion to have free public college for everyone in America.”
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“That is 10% of the defense budget.”
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“From the time I've been in Congress, [the defense budget has] gone up from 600 billion to almost a trillion.”
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“Trump wants to take [the defense budget] to 1.5 trillion.”
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“They're under no obligation to comply with an administrative subpoena, which is not a judicial subpoena.”
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“America invested in our research universities with Van Aure Bush, and we made massive investments after World War II.”
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“America had a policy of welcoming people from around the world and had immigrants that built our economic growth.”
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