Ilhan Omar claims jobs program she crafted with Booker will ‘pay for itself’

Published September 17, 2019 1:35am ET



Rep. Ilhan Omar claimed to CNN that the government jobs program plan she introduced with Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will “pay for itself.”

“It would create a pilot program to guarantee jobs for anyone that wants one. That’s ambitious. It would cost a lot of money. What is the number one thing you would do to pay for that?” anchor Erin Burnett asked the Minnesota Democrat on Monday.

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