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Daniel Driscoll: “Over the next five years, $48 billion [will be cut].”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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Published | Video Starts at 03:56

But I'm learning that, yeah, that's our thing. And it was four kind of four core things. We cut $48 billion in expected future spending. You're cutting. We are cutting. So Over the next five years, $48 billion [will be cut]. We can go into how annoyed this has made people, but where they thought they were going to get the dollars. We said, no more. We're not going to do it. (03:56–04:02)

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