“Spending money like in Ukraine, you mean?” Tapper asked.

“Yes, exactly. And part of my frustration was, we would love nothing more to help you out, but also, we don’t have the votes from Republicans. But even getting to that discussion starts going down a long conversation. The biggest lesson we have to learn here is, when people are hurting economically, they’re going to take care of themselves first. And that’s what we have seen for the last — change elections for the last 20 years. And I think it’s important for Democrats to remember that from now on. You have to take care of people at the bottom line. You have to give them some level of economic security, especially Latino men. Latino men believe they can work themselves out of any problem. Like, I remember growing up, when I didn’t have enough money to travel back home for Christmas, I just went and worked extra hours,” Gallego said.

Tapper jumped in and asked, “When you were a Marine?”