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Daniel Driscoll: “We've basically been able to save the taxpayer $2 billion a…”

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

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LIVE Interview with U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll at the PA Defense and Innovation Summit...

Published | Video Starts at 13:02

And what we wanted to do is optimize the types of jobs that they were doing. And so we've put into place a hiring freeze that is still in place today. And We've basically been able to save the taxpayer $2 billion a year. by trying to be thoughtful and good for fiduciaries of the taxpayer dollars. And what I think that that has done is that has empowered the Secretary of War and the President and Congress to, to believe in us. (13:02–13:06)

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Asserts that the army saves $2 billion annually through a hiring freeze.

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