Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Congress Members Getting Wealthy Off Iran Strikes
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib says the federal government can discover cash “out of nowhere” to fund wars, and it is even lining some Congress members’ pockets — one thing she desperately needs to alter.
Charlie caught up with the Congresswoman from Michigan Tuesday to speak concerning the newest retaliatory strikes on Iran … assaults made with out Congressional approval, which did not precisely shock her, at this level.
Rep. Tlaib advised us she will’t get her colleagues to care or “move with the same sense of urgency” on the subject of different points impacting People day-to-day.
However she tells us … “I think it’s because many of my colleagues in there, both Republicans, Democrats, actually own stock in war manufacturing.”
Tlaib continued to name them out, claiming they become profitable “every time a bomb is dropped.”
She added the profiting is not simply from navy manufacturing shares … she claims her colleagues additionally personal inventory in well being care and the fossil gasoline trade.
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Rashida’s not simply complaining, although … watch the clip, she explains how she’s attempting to dam Congress members from cashing in on struggle.
As you understand, U.S. Central Command introduced earlier it had fired “self-defense strikes” at Iran after they allegedly downed an Apache helicopter, and President Trump referred to as for instant retaliation.