James Talarico

And we are spending $1 billion a day on this new war.

That's money that we could be investing in our schools, investing in our healthcare, investing

lowering the price of housing and childcare and prescription drugs.

That's $1 billion a day that's not being spent on our communities.

Every dollar we spend bombing someone on the other side of the world is a dollar we're not investing here at home.

During the primary campaign, I visited Sand Branch, Texas, which is a community south of Dallas.

It's a community that doesn't have any running water, doesn't have basic sewer infrastructure.

And so every dollar we're spending on another forever war in the Middle East is a dollar we're not spending in Sand Branch, Texas to give our neighbors running water.

There's always enough money for bombs.

There's always enough money for war.

And there's never enough money for our healthcare, our schools, our veterans, our communities.

And I think people are sick of it.

People voted for Donald Trump to end these forever wars.

And he's, again, done the exact opposite.

So it's just broken promise after broken promise.

And we have to meet people where they're at in their disillusionment and hopefully reinstill a little bit of hope in people that we can have a politics that truly serves our interests.

And I think that's the work we're doing in Texas.

You would think he'd have more important things to focus on.

Yeah.

This is one of the questions I get asked the most on the campaign trail, no matter where I go in Texas.