Donald Trump: “We want to raise defense spending.”

“You know, we can do things that we did even better than we did during the Trump tax breaks. And you want to raise defense spending. We want to raise defense spending. I think we have to have it. One of the reasons I can speak with authority is we really do have amazing military. But. But they're also getting bigger.” (30:02–30:04)

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