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. But guess what? Between 2007 and 2024, 23,000 new State Department employees had been added, more than the number of agents that Border Patrol is mandated to have by Congress. (01:59–02:04)
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