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Veronica Escobar: “Residents have a right to know how their tax dollars are…”

Featuring: Veronica Escobar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 16

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LIVE: El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar holds press conference.

Published | Video Starts at 38:26

What question for you and for everyone, what message do you have for the residents, people that have these words, what message do you, you want to say to them? And I'll let others address this as well. Residents have a right to know how their tax dollars are being spent. Nearly $1.3 billion [is being spent on Camp East Montana]. Campeast, Montana. Those are our tax dollars. At a time when the administration is cutting health care, cutting nutrition programs because of the illegal war, diesel prices are going up, gas prices are, are going up. (38:26)

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