Later, Reid worried about the size of the philanthropic brothers’ wealth.
”It is not right that we have two of richest men in the world trying to buy America,” he responded to a question by colleague Dick Durbin of Illinois. ”They have far more money than virtually every government.”
Bloomberg recently reported that the combined net worth of the Kochs surpasses $100 billion — which is larger than almost every U.S. state’s budget, though the statistics aren’t comparable since one is a stock and the other is a flow.
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