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Tammy Baldwin: “We should be spending those resources helping cities like…”

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

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US Sen. Tammy Baldwin on health policy, National Guard in Milwaukee | Here & Now

Published | Video Starts at 09:26

And I think that, you know, the National Guard are totally unsuited. They sign up for guard duty because of a different mission entirely. And We should be spending those resources helping cities like Milwaukee or other communities have the adequate policing staff that they need. But you know what? I really think the deployment of the National Guard, whether it be to Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. or wherever Donald Trump plans to send them next, is a distraction. (09:26–09:37)

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Asserts that resources should be allocated to bolster local police staffing rather than deploying the National Guard.

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