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Tammy Baldwin: “Instead of spending tens of billion dollars more for this…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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"Who Is Accountable?" Tammy Baldwin Presses Hegseth On Troop Safety

Published | Video Starts at 00:27

And thank you for appearing before our committee today. To many I represent and to me, this supplemental request is another example of this administration's misplaced priorities. Instead of spending tens of billion dollars more for this president's war of choice in Iran that both houses of Congress, I may add, have voted to end, absent explicit authorization by Congress, we should be focusing on the needs of American families. We could invest this money to accelerate new cures and treatments for. For cancer and Alzheimer's. We could use it to help more families with rising home energy costs. (00:27–00:49)

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Asserts that Congress has voted to end the war in Iran, which lacks explicit authorization.

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