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Tulsi Gabbard: “They tell people back here at home, people who are…”

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

Published | Video Starts at 01:07

Somehow there is always a blank check coming from Congress. Spending our American taxpayer dollars to and wage new wars, a new cold war, a nuclear arms race. While They tell people back here at home, people who are struggling for clean water or for safe communities or securing our borders, just saying, sorry, there's not enough money. You never hear them actually talk about and tell the American people what is the cost of war in the form of cost in human lives, the form of cost to American taxpayers, form of cost to our economy and to our freedom. (01:07–01:18)

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Asserts that domestic needs are underfunded while military spending is prioritized.

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