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Rashida Tlaib: “I think my question is to someone that can answer, and this really is a sincere question about how much do we subsidize.…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2022
I think my question is to someone that can answer, and this really is a sincere question about how much do we subsidize. Is it $2 billion that we subsidize for private companies to destroy, cut down our trees on our lands?
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib questions the subsidies given to companies for logging on public lands.

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