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Ed Case: “The reconciliation is not about Iran. The reconciliation is…”

Featuring: Ed Case, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 1st Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 04:07

What is it all, you know, how long our budget generation process is and the appropriation cycle, and so we completed this before the Iran conflicts. Exactly. Okay, so what you're coming back to us with is not the record. I mean, The reconciliation is not about Iran. The reconciliation is about assumptions that were made before Iran. It's about making a generational investment in the joint force and building military readiness. That's what your request is. (04:07–04:13)

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Asserts that the FY27 reconciliation request is based on assumptions made before the Iran conflict.

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