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Daniel Driscoll: “The army spends almost 200 billion a year.”

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

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In the most powerful country in the. World, in the most powerful country in the world that spends almost a trillion dollars on defense, we, The army spends almost 200 billion a year. have over a million people, and our outputs were so bad that it's just enraging as somebody who was in the army for three and a half years, whose dad was in the army, whose granddad was in the army, who. (03:05–03:23)

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Asserts that the U.S. Army's annual budget is nearly $200 billion.

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