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Wed Jul 22 15:46:59 +0000 2020

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Ed Markey @SenMarkey

Today, we vote on the Sanders-Markey amendment to cut the Pentagon budget by 10% & reinvest in affordable housing, schools, childcare facilities, CHCs, libraries, clean drinking water facilities, improving education, and more. The Senate must vote to support #PeopleOverPentagon. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 22, 2020

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Ed Markey @SenMarkey

We have spent $6.4 trillion dollars on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere since 2001. Every dollar spent on war is one fewer available to fight poverty. I’m on the Senate floor with @SenSanders to fight for our amendment to cut the Pentagon budget by 10%. Watch: — PolitiTweet.org

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Today the Senate will be voting on my amendment that says clearly: Cut the Pentagon budget by 10%. Invest in jobs,… https://t.co/MUomKZxro3

Posted July 22, 2020

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Ed Markey @SenMarkey

We should prioritize eradicating poverty, not war. We should prioritize battling global-killer diseases, not developing new weapons designed to eradicate the human race. It is time we fund education, not annihilation. Medicaid, not missiles. #PeopleOverPentagon — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 22, 2020

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