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Tim Walz: “We're also like California. We're a payer state. We pay more…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Governor Tim Walz on Trump Targeting Minnesota, Not Running for Re-Election & Talking to Kamala

Published | Video Starts at 05:01

He's like Sigmund Fraud, demonize immigrant community, especially the Somali community. And I said what he was doing was, is the programs in Minnesota, look, we are a generous state. We're also like California. We're a payer state. We pay more in than we get back to support red states that don't support their people. But they came in to try and destroy those programs and you know, that's again, rich. Destroy programs that don't help them by billionaires who commit this fraud. (05:01–05:07)

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Asserts that Minnesota is a payer state, contributing more in federal taxes than it receives.

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