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Ruben Gallego: “The last thing the American public wants is to see the…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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'Trump wants us to go back to 1930s': Sen. Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 14:09

… afford rent, can, can't, you know, your, your, you know, we have the largest amount of car loan defaults right now. Large, large amount of credit card defaults right now. The last thing the American public wants is to see the United States government giving money to multi billion, billion billion dollar oil companies in order for them to go and build in a different country that is not necessarily going to benefit us. And so this is all entirely like lunatic position that this president is taking. And also the American people does not want to see their sons and daughters get shot up for big oil. (14:09–14:26)

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Asserts that the American public opposes government funding for oil companies to build abroad.

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