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Defending the Democratic Party in 2020
According to a 2020 sludge report 51 members of congress and their spouses own between 2.3 and 5.8 million dollars of stocks in companies that are among the top 30 defense contractors in the world. More than 70 percent of laki martins at 51 billion dollars in 2018 revenue came from sales to the u.s government. Nearly one third of the members of the senate defense subcommittee of the appropriations committee owned stocks and top defense contractors simply put when war happens stocks go up as they did after trump killed iranian general salamani dozens of members of congress saw their portfolio value bump due to the possibility of war.
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