Ro Khanna
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They wear the uniform.
They give every single thing for this country.
And you're saying to me, okay, if you're going to, let's say, in a countrywide have a 1% tax on wealth that people are going to leave, like, come on, have some more patriotism.
You have some loyalty to the country.
I'm not going to defend the waste and the fraud.
Two things.
I think we absolutely need to get a handle both on the overseas wars.
I mean, we spent $6 trillion on Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm against these kind of regime change wars.
I'm against going and trying to do regime change in Venezuela.
And now, what, do we want to occupy the country for three years?
Think about how much that's going to cost.
I voted against the billions of dollars that we gave Netanyahu when he was slaughtering people in Gaza.
I was opposed, of course, to October 7th as a terrorist attack in Hamas.
But we can't just be giving billions of dollars of offensive weapons for two years to Netanyahu.
And I do believe that we need to stop a...
military budget of any of these endless wars.
Look, I think we have to first take care of our family.
We have starving people here.
You know, so, and Argentina, we're bailing out Argentina's failed leadership.