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On the recordFebruary 22, 2021
It does us little good to spend billions and billions of dollars and then see that money go offshore to manufacturing facilities in China or other places around the world, where American dollars, American taxpayer dollars are being used to support other economies and not our own.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Garamendi criticizes spending taxpayer money that benefits foreign economies instead of American ones.

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