America, in many cases, would have been better off burning that money than spending it in the ways that it had previously. In the year 2000, the State Department's budget was $9.5 billion. Under Joe Biden, it was over 55 billion. And I don't think that we could say our foreign policy was $45 billion more effective in those years. This past Friday, 1300 State Department personnel were laid off. (01:42–01:51)
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Asserts that the State Department's budget increased from $9.5 billion in 2000 to over $55 billion under Joe Biden.
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