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Tina Smith: “There's more than $5 billion in this fund that is available.”

Featuring: Tina Smith, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 10:57

They put it up on the website and now they've taken it down because they are cruelly using people as their bargaining chips. Congress specifically set aside an emergency pot of funding for situations like that like this. There are, There's more than $5 billion in this fund that is available. So they have the money. And come next week when roughly 40 million Americans and 440,000 Minnesotans can't buy groceries, that is going to be on Donald Trump and the Republicans. (10:57–11:02)

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Asserts that there is over $5 billion available in the emergency fund.

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