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On the recordJune 3, 2025
I’m not a great mathematician, but I think you were talking about $1 trillion? I believe $1.5 billion times 10 is $15 billion. That’s a little bit off from $1 trillion.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island
Source
msnbc.com

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Reed corrected Kennedy's math error regarding funding for a federal program.

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